The Dell PowerEdge XE9680 is Dell’s flagship AI server: a 6U, air-cooled chassis carrying eight NVIDIA SXM GPUs – H100, H200 or A100 – on an HGX baseboard with NVLink and NVSwitch. When buyers search for an eight-GPU Dell training node, this is the machine they mean.
Buying: IO South stocks and sources the PowerEdge XE9680 new and refurbished, configured to your spec, with a warranty on refurbished units. Selling: we also buy XE9680 systems and the GPUs inside them from businesses upgrading or decommissioning. Request a quote, or get an offer on the GPUs you have.
| Form factor | 6U rack, air-cooled |
|---|---|
| Processors | Two 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable |
| GPUs | Eight NVIDIA SXM GPUs (H100, H200 or A100) on an HGX baseboard |
| GPU interconnect | NVLink with NVSwitch, all-to-all |
| Memory | Up to 32 DDR5 DIMM slots |
| Role | Training-class node; the standard building block for GPU clusters |
Large-model training and heavyweight fine-tuning. Eight NVLinked SXM GPUs per node is the unit AI clusters are built from, and the XE9680 is Dell’s answer to it – popular with teams standardized on PowerEdge who want AI capacity inside the same support and management umbrella as the rest of their fleet.
Most XE9680 deployments do not ship alone – they come with R760 or R7625 head nodes, T560 towers, storage and switching. Send the whole bill of materials and we price it as one order. Start a custom quote.
We hold and source real inventory rather than brokering, configure to your spec, and warranty refurbished units. Because we also buy hardware back, your A100-generation fleet can fund part of the H100 or H200 upgrade – many customers run the refresh and the buyback as one conversation. Call 855-272-5044 or email info@iosouth.com.
It depends heavily on the GPU configuration: eight H100s, H200s or A100s change the number more than anything else in the chassis. Send us the config you need, or the one you have, and we quote it the same business day. Refurbished and secondary-market units run well below Dell list.
The XE9680 holds eight SXM GPUs in 6U; the XE8640 holds four in 4U. Eight-GPU nodes are the building block for serious training clusters, while four-GPU boxes cover most fine-tuning and inference work at lower power and cost.
Yes. IO South buys XE9680 systems, with or without GPUs, from businesses upgrading or decommissioning AI infrastructure. Call 855-272-5044 or email info@iosouth.com and we come back with an offer.
Yes. If your build includes several models – an XE9680 with R760s, R7625s, T560s or networking – send the whole list and we quote it as one order.
Sell used NVIDIA H100 · Sell used NVIDIA GPUs · PowerEdge XE8640 (four-GPU)
* Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price
Two 5th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with up to 64 cores per processor
Two 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with up to 56 cores per processor
32 DDR5 DIMM slots, supports RDIMM 4 TB max,
Speeds up to 5600 MT/s on the 5th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors
Speeds up to 4800 MT/s on the 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors
Supports registered ECC DDR5 DIMMs only
8 NVIDIA HGX H100 80GB 700W SXM5 GPUs, fully interconnected with NVIDIA NVLink technology or
8 NVIDIA HGX H200 141GB 700W SXM5 GPUs, fully interconnected with NVIDIA NVLink technology or
8 NVIDIA HGX H20 96GB 500W SXM5 GPUs, fully interconnected with NVIDIA NVLink technology or
8 AMD Instinct MI300X 192GB 750W OAM accelerator with AMD Infinity Fabric connectivity or
8 Intel Gaudi 3 128GB 900W OAM accelerator with embedded RoCE ports for ethernet connectivity
Internal Controllers (RAID): PERC H965i (Not supported with Intel Gaudi3)
Internal boot: Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem (NVMe BOSS-N1): HWRAID 1, 2 x M.2 SSDs
Software RAID: S160
Up to 8 x 2.5-inch NVMe/SAS/SATA SSD drives max 122.88 TB
Up to 16 x E3.S NVMe direct drives max 122.88 TB
Note: Only 8 x 2.5-inch NVMe SSD drives are supported with Intel Gaudi3.
3200W Titanium 277 VAC or 260-400 VDC, hot swap redundant (only available in the US & Canada)
3000W Titanium 200-240 VAC or 240 VDC, (Multi-rated, available only with Intel Gaudi 3)
2800W Titanium 200-240 VAC or 240 VDC, hot swap redundant
Air cooling
Intel® C741 chipset
Up to 10 x16 Gen5 (x16 PCIe) full-height, half-length (8 PCIe slots with Intel Gaudi 3)
2 x 1 GbE
6 x 800 Gb (available only with Intel Gaudi 3)
1 x OCP 3.0 (x8 PCIe lanes)
Up to six high performance (HPR) gold grade fans installed in mid tray
Up to ten high performance (HPR) gold grade fans installed on the rear of the system (up to 12 fans with Intel Gaudi 3)
Height — 263.2 mm (10.36 inches)
Width — 482.0 mm (18.97 inches)
Depth — 1008.77 mm (39.71 inches) with bezel
— 995 mm (39.17 inches) without bezel
Weight — up to 114.05 kg (251.44 pounds)
6U rack server
iDRAC9
iDRAC Direct
iDRAC RESTful API with Redfish
iDRAC Service Module
Optional LCD bezel or security bezel
CloudIQ for PowerEdge plug in
OpenManage Enterprise
OpenManage Service plugin
OpenManage Power Manager plugin
OpenManage Update Manager plugin
BMC Truesight
OpenManage Integration with ServiceNow
Red Hat Ansible Modules
Terraform Providers
Cryptographically signed firmware
Data at Rest Encryption
(SEDs with local or external key mgmt)
Secure Boot
Secured Component Verification (Hardware integrity check)
Secure Erase
Silicon Root of Trust
System Lockdown
(requires iDRAC9 Enterprise or Datacenter)
TPM 2.0 FIPS, CC-TCG certified, TPM 2.0 China
Front ports
1 x iDRAC Direct (Micro-AB USB) port
1 x USB 2.0
1 x VGA
Rear ports
1 x USB 2.0
1 x USB 3.0
1 x VGA
1 x RJ45 iDRAC9 ethernet port
Canonical Ubuntu Server LTS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
VMware ESXi
For specifications and interoperability details, see Dell.com/OSsupport.
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