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17th Generation Dell PowerEdge Rack Server Quick Reference Comparison Guide
Dell PowerEdge rack servers help you build a modern infrastructure that minimizes IT challenges and drives business success. Our Quick Reference Guide (QRG) includes a condensed view of our entire rack server portfolio.
Rack Server | R470 | R570 | R670 | R770 | R6715 | R7715 | R6725 | R7725 |
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Key attributes | Purpose-built to maximize efficiency and affordability with optimized single-socket servers, delivering power-packed performance for cloud scale web and app microservices, data services, virtualization, and scale-out database. | Purpose-built to maximize efficiency and affordability with optimized single-socket servers, delivering power-packed performance for cloud scale web and app microservices, and scale-out database. | Open ecosystem optimized for compute workloads and designed to optimize power and balance performance for high-density deployments, cloud-native applications, and all-flash SDS. | Open ecosystem optimized for compute workloads and provides maximum performance with increased power for virtualization and microservices, cloud-native applications, and large-scale analytics. | Right-size memory and storage density | Enhanced performance and value | Breakthrough performance density | Breakthrough performance that scales |
Target workloads | Virtualization, Scale-out database, Big Data and Analytics, High Performance Compute, and Edge Compute | Medium-density Virtualization, All-Databases, Big Data and Analytics, VDI, High Performance Compute, and Software-defined Storage. | Virtualization, Cloud-native applications, All-flash SDS, Hyperscale workloads, and Scale out Databases | Virtualization, Artificial Intelligence Inferencing, Cloud-native applications, Hyperscale workloads, and Scale out Databases | Data analytics, Dense virtualization, and Software defined storage | Data analytics, Dense virtualization, and Software defined storage | High Performance Computing (HPC), Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), and Virtualization | High Performance Computing (HPC), Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), and Virtualization |
Type of processor | 1 x Intel® Xeon® 6 E-core processor with up to 144 cores or 1 x Intel® Xeon® 6 P-core processor with up to 86 cores with R1S option |
2 x Intel® Xeon® 6 E-core processor with up to 144 cores or 2 x Intel® Xeon® 6 P-core processor with up to 86 cores |
1 x AMD EPYC™ 5th Generation 9005 Series Processor, up to 160 cores | 2 x AMD EPYC™ 5th Generation 9005 Series Processor, up to 192 cores | ||||
DDR5 DIMM slots (max capacity) |
16 (4 TB*) | 32 (8 TB) | 24 (3 TB) | 24 (6 TB) | 24 (3 TB) | 24 (6 TB) | ||
Disk drives up to: | 4 x 3.5" 4 x Universal 8 x 2.5" 10 x 2.5" 8 x E3.S / 16 x E3.S 4 x E3.S (Rear) |
8 x 2.5" 12 x 3.5 16 x 2.5 24 x 2.5 8 x E3.S / 16 x E3.S* / 32 x E3.S 4 x E3.S (Rear) |
8 x 2.5" 10 x 2.5 16 x E3.S / 16 x E3.S* / 20 x E3.S 2 x E3.S (Rear) |
8 x 2.5" 16 x 2.5 24 x 2.5 8 x E3.S / 16 x E3.S 32 x E3.S / 40 x E3.S 4 x E3.S (Rear) |
4 x 3.5 4 x Universal 8 x 2.5 / U.2 10 x 2.5 16 x E3.S / 20 x E3.S 2 x E3.S (Rear) |
2 x U.2 8 x 2.5* / U.2 12 x 3.5 16 x 2.5 24 x 2.5 8 x E3.S / 16 x E3.S 32 x E3.S / 40 x E3.S |
4 x 3.5 4 x U.2 8 x 2.5 10 x 2.5 16 x E3.S / 16 x E3.S 2 x E3.S (Rear) |
8 x 2.5* / U.2 12 x 3.5 16 x 2.5 24 x 2.5 8 x E3.S / 16 x E3.S 32 x E3.S / 40 x E3.S |
NVMe drives up to: | 16 | 32 | 22 | 44 | 22 | 40 | 22 | 40 |
Gen5 PCIe slots up to: | 4 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 8 |
Gen4 PCIe slots up to: | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Accelerator support up to: | 4 x 75 W SW | 3 x 400 W DW* or 4 x 75 W SW | 3 x 75 W SW | 2 x 350 DW or 6 x 75 W SW | 3 x 75 W SW | 3 x 400 W DW* or 6 x 75 W SW | 3 x SW | 2 x 250/350/400 W DW* or 6 x 75 W SW |
Rack height (U) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
Integrated security | Cryptographically signed firmware, Data at Rest Encryption (SEDs with local or external key mgmt), Secure Boot, Secured Component Verification (Hardware integrity check), Silicon Root of Trust, Secure Erase, System Lockdown (requires iDRAC10 Enterprise or Datacenter), TPM 2.0 FIPS, CC‑TCG certified, Chassis Intrusion Detection | Cryptographically Signed Firmware, Data at Rest Encryption (SED with local or external key mgmt), Secure Boot, Secured Component Verification (Hardware integrity check), Secure Erase, Silicon Root of Trust, System Lockdown, TPM 2.0 FIPS, CC‑TCG certified, AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME), AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV), Chassis Intrusion Detection |
Dell EMC Services
To fully implement a modern infrastructure, organizations require reliable, comprehensive IT services to drive IT transformations, accelerate adoption of new technologies and maximize productivity.
Dell EMC Solutions
When you buy a Dell EMC server, you get more than just hardware. You get access to IT solutions end-to-end. Dell and EMC bring together industry-leading expertise into a common platform to help you transform your data center. Dell EMC can deliver PowerEdge technology at any level of integration – from a best-in-breed platform, to a pre-integrated fully turnkey hybrid cloud implementation or any step in-between. Combining the PowerEdge server infrastructure with Dell Services and Financial Solutions allows you to modernize your data center faster, more affordably and with less risk.
OpenManage Systems Management

Increase the productivity, reliability, and cost‑effectiveness of your Dell EMC PowerEdge servers while making your IT operations more efficient. The Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise console is designed with today's IT Professionals in mind. It simplifies, intelligently automates, and unifies infrastructure management tasks.
Though primarily designed to monitor, configure, and update tower, rack, and modular PowerEdge servers, OpenManage Enterprise goes beyond. It provides end-to-end infrastructure monitoring capabilities for Dell EMC storage and networking devices, as well as third-party hardware.
Add OpenManage Mobile to empower your IT Pros to receive and take action on hardware events from both Dell EMC and third-party sources anytime, anywhere. Furthermore, OpenManage Integrations facilitate comprehensive hardware and software infrastructure management without the need to leave third-party consoles, such as VMware vCenter and Microsoft System Center.