The MX760c is a two-socket Intel Xeon Scalable compute sled for the PowerEdge MX7000 modular chassis, which holds eight of them and provides their power, cooling, management and network fabrics. It makes sense where an MX7000 is already in place or planned. This page maps what the sled carries — processors, 32 DIMMs, its own drives and mezzanine cards — against what the chassis has to supply.
Blade / modular compute sled1 or 2 sockets4th Gen Xeon Scalable5th Gen Xeon ScalableiDRAC9
8sleds per MX70001U single-width, hot-swappable
48cores per CPU96 per sled · largest listed SKUs
8TBDDR5 maximum32 RDIMM slots · 32 × 256 GB
8E3.S Gen5 baysor 4 / 6 × 2.5-inch per sled
3fabric mezzanine slotsA and B Ethernet · C for FC or SAS
6chassis PSUs, maximum3000 W AC Platinum, in the MX7000
1Front I/O module: iDRAC Direct, USB 3.0, power button
26 × 2.5-inch hot-plug drive bays
3Release handle
4Express service tag
Image: Dell Technologies
Form factor
Blade / modular compute sled · 2 sockets
Processors
4th Gen Xeon · 5th Gen Xeon
Memory
32 × DDR5 RDIMM · up to 8 TB
Drive bays
Up to 8 · 4 drive-bay layouts
Expansion
0 × PCIe
Boot
M.2 and BOSS · 2 boot options
Management
iDRAC9
01 — Overview
The MX760c at a glance
Our read of Dell’s documentation: where the MX760c is strong, and the limits worth knowing before you spec one.
Strengths
+Two sockets and 32 DDR5 slots — eight channels per processor, two DIMMs per channel — in a sled 51 mm high, with up to 8 TB of RDIMM.
+Power, fans, management modules and switching live in the MX7000, so adding compute means sliding in another sled rather than racking and cabling a new server.
+Against the MX750c, Fabric B moves to a PCIe Gen5 x16 mezzanine and EDSFF E3.S Gen5 storage arrives: eight per sled, up to 64 per chassis.
+Fibre Channel is supported: 32 Gb FC mini-mezzanine cards from Emulex and QLogic plug into Fabric C.
Watch-outs
!The headline figures outrun the processor tables. Dell quotes up to 64 cores and 350 W, but the SKUs it lists stop at 48 cores and 330 W (4th Gen) and 32 cores and 300 W (5th Gen).
!Processors above 225 W need the wider HPR heat sink, which limits the sled to 24 DIMMs, subject to Dell’s population guidance.
!The 6 × 2.5-inch backplane rules out the 8452Y, 8460Y+, 8462Y+, 8468V and 8562Y+ (300–330 W) entirely, and allows the 270 W SKUs and the single-socket 300 W 8461V only when neighbouring sleds are matched or blanked.
!Nothing runs without an MX7000: the sled has no power supply or fan of its own, and its only external ports are front USB and iDRAC Direct — all networking goes through the chassis fabrics.
!No GPU option listed and no standard PCIe slot: I/O is limited to two Ethernet mezzanines and one mini-mezzanine.
Processors28 SKUs
Cores / CPU8–48
DIMM slots32
Drive layouts4
Max bays8
Chassis power parts1 · to 3,000 W
02 — Processors
28 supported processors, mapped
Dell lists 28 processors for the MX760c — 19 4th Gen and 9 5th Gen Xeon Scalable SKUs — from the 8-core 3408U to the 48-core 8468V. The chart plots each by cores and TDP; the sled’s storage backplane then decides which of the hotter parts can actually be cooled.
Processor landscape — cores × TDP
28 SKUs · 2 families
4th Gen Xeon Scalable 195th Gen Xeon Scalable 9Bubble size = L3 cache · hover a bubble for the full SKU
Processor explorer
filter · sort · compare
Processor
Cores / threads
Base
L3 cache
TDP
W / core
Memory
Intel Xeon Platinum 8468V
48 / 96
2.4 GHz
90 MB
330 W
6.9
DDR5-4800
Intel Xeon Platinum 8461V
48 / 96
2.2 GHz
90 MB
300 W
6.3
DDR5-4800
Intel Xeon Platinum 8460Y+
48 / 80
2 GHz
75 MB
300 W
6.3
DDR5-4800
Intel Xeon Platinum 8452Y
44 / 72
2 GHz
68 MB
300 W
6.8
DDR5-4800
Intel Xeon Platinum 8462Y+
32 / 64
2.8 GHz
60 MB
300 W
9.4
DDR5-4800
Intel Xeon Gold 6454S
32 / 64
2.2 GHz
60 MB
270 W
8.4
DDR5-4800
Intel Xeon Gold 6430
32 / 64
2.1 GHz
60 MB
270 W
8.4
DDR5-4800
Intel Xeon Gold 6448Y
32 / 64
2.2 GHz
60 MB
225 W
7.0
DDR5-4800
Intel Xeon Gold 6438Y+
32 / 64
2 GHz
60 MB
205 W
6.4
DDR5-4800
Intel Xeon Gold 6438M
32 / 64
2.2 GHz
60 MB
205 W
6.4
DDR5-4800
Intel Xeon Platinum 8562Y+
32 / 64
2.8 GHz
60 MB
300 W
9.4
DDR5-5600
Intel Xeon Gold 6548N
32 / 64
2.8 GHz
60 MB
250 W
7.8
DDR5-5200
Intel Xeon Gold 6548Y+
32 / 64
2.5 GHz
60 MB
250 W
7.8
DDR5-5200
Intel Xeon Gold 5420+
28 / 56
2 GHz
53 MB
205 W
7.3
DDR5-4800
Intel Xeon Gold 6442Y
24 / 48
2.6 GHz
45 MB
225 W
9.4
DDR5-4800
Intel Xeon Gold 5418Y
24 / 48
2 GHz
45 MB
185 W
7.7
DDR5-4400
Intel Xeon Gold 6542Y
24 / 48
2.9 GHz
60 MB
250 W
10.4
DDR5-5200
Intel Xeon Silver 4416+
20 / 40
2 GHz
38 MB
165 W
8.3
DDR5-4400
Intel Xeon Gold 6444Y
16 / 32
3.5 GHz
30 MB
270 W
16.9
DDR5-4800
Intel Xeon Gold 6426Y
16 / 32
2.6 GHz
30 MB
185 W
11.6
DDR5-4800
Intel Xeon Gold 5416S
16 / 32
2 GHz
30 MB
150 W
9.4
DDR5-4400
Intel Xeon Gold 6526Y
16 / 32
2.8 GHz
37.5 MB
195 W
12.2
DDR5-5200
Intel Xeon Silver 4514Y
16 / 32
2 GHz
30 MB
150 W
9.4
DDR5-4400
Intel Xeon Silver 4510
12 / 24
2.4 GHz
30 MB
150 W
12.5
DDR5-4400
Intel Xeon Gold 6434
8 / 16
3.7 GHz
15 MB
205 W
25.6
DDR5-4800
Intel Xeon Bronze 3408U
8 / 16
1.8 GHz
15 MB
125 W
15.6
DDR5-4000
Intel Xeon Gold 6534
8 / 16
3.9 GHz
22.5 MB
195 W
24.4
DDR5-4800
Intel Xeon Silver 4509Y
8 / 16
2.6 GHz
23 MB
125 W
15.6
DDR5-4400
The 8461V and 3408U are single-socket only (marked 1S in Dell’s thermal matrix).
Dell’s 4th Gen table prints most SKUs twice, as XCC and MCC die variants with identical figures; each is counted once here.
For four SKUs the guide’s processor table and thermal matrix disagree on TDP: 6438Y+ (270 W vs 205 W), 6438M (225 W vs 205 W), 6426Y (205 W vs 185 W) and 6434 (205 W vs 195 W). The chart uses the values in our verified spec file.
Dell’s table pairs 44 cores with 72 threads for the 8452Y and 48 cores with 80 threads for the 8460Y+ — counts that don’t match two threads per core, so treat those two rows with care.
4th Gen SKUs link over UPI at 16 GT/s and 5th Gen SKUs at 20 GT/s, apart from the 4514Y, 4510 and 4509Y at 16 GT/s. The tables record only whether a SKU turbos (the 3408U does not), not its turbo frequency.
03 — Memory
32 DIMM slots, 16 per processor
The sled has 32 DDR5 RDIMM slots: eight channels per processor, two slots on each. Sixteen DIMMs — one per channel — give the full rated speed; populating all 32 takes every channel down to 4400 MT/s. The 8 TB ceiling means 32 × 256 GB DDR5-4800 modules.
Capacity with every slot filled
by DIMM size
Operating speed
per Dell memory tables
Processor
1 DIMM / channel
2 DIMMs / channel
4th Gen Xeon Scalable
4800 MT/s
4400 MT/s
5th Gen Xeon Scalable
5600 MT/s*
4400 MT/s
* Per-processor limits apply. Of the 5th Gen SKUs only the 8562Y+ is rated at 5600 MT/s; the 6548Y+, 6548N, 6542Y and 6526Y are rated at 5200, the 6534 at 4800 and the 4514Y, 4510 and 4509Y at 4400. Dell also cautions that the processor can lower a DIMM’s rated speed.
Dell’s 5th Gen thermal matrix lists RDIMMs up to 128 GB; the 256 GB module appears only in the 4th Gen matrix. Plan on 4 TB (32 × 128 GB) for a 5th Gen sled unless Dell confirms 256 GB support.
In the 6 × 2.5-inch sled the 256 GB module is limited to 30 °C, and ASHRAE A3/A4 rooms rule out RDIMMs of 128 GB and above.
4th Gen processors need BIOS 2.2.7 or later to run 5600 MT/s DIMMs, and then only in 16, 32 and 64 GB sizes.
04 — Storage
4 drive-bay layouts, up to 8 bays
Each MX760c carries its own drives at the front of the sled: it is built with a four- or six-bay 2.5-inch backplane, an eight-bay E3.S Gen5 backplane, or diskless. That choice also governs which processors the sled can cool.
Headline layouts
front panel view
Front panel
Eight EDSFF E3.S NVMe Gen5 SSDs — up to 61 TB per sled in Dell’s spec sheet, and 64 E3.S devices across a full chassis.
SAS/SATANVMeSAS/SATA + NVMe
Controllers & boot
PERC H965i MX — RAID. Premium Performance tier; SAS/SATA or NVMe RAID; PERC connector on system board (PCIe Gen4 x16 PERC slot from CPU1)
HBA350i MX — HBA. Value tier; 12 Gb SAS, 2 ports, Fabric C mezz adapter (Table 11)
S160 — Software RAID. Entry tier; SATA, NVMe
BOSS-N1 — Boot. HWRAID 1, 2 x M.2
PERC H755 MX — RAID. Listed ONLY in the spec sheet ('Internal controllers: PERC H755 MX, PERC H965i MX, HBA350i MX'); not in technical guide Table 9
BOSS-N1 (HWRAID 1, 2 x M.2 SSDs; PCIe Gen4 x4 from CPU1; 480 GB or 960 GB per spec sheet) — boot
USB (internal USB 3.0 port; 'USB or BOSS' per spec sheet) — boot
The sled’s PERC connector takes the PERC H965i MX (SAS/SATA or NVMe RAID) or the HBA350i MX; S160 software RAID covers SATA and NVMe. Dell’s spec sheet also lists a PERC H755 MX, which the guide’s controller table leaves out.
Boot: BOSS-N1 with two M.2 SSDs (480 or 960 GB) in hardware RAID 1, or the internal USB 3.0 port.
SAS through the chassis uses the two-port 12 Gb Dell PERC HBA350i SAS MX mezzanine adapter on Fabric C.
ASHRAE A3/A4 environments exclude PCIe SSDs and E3.S drives.
Every documented layout
4 with drive bays
2.5-inch3.5-inchEDSFF (E1.S / E3.S)
05 — I/O & networking
PCIe and networking
I/O topology
80 lanes per CPU
The MX760c has no conventional PCIe slots. Its I/O is three mezzanine connectors, each mapped to one of the MX7000’s fabrics: A and B for Ethernet, C for Fibre Channel or SAS.
Ethernet mezzanines go in slot A or B, A first, two cards at most: Broadcom quad-port 25 GbE (x16), Intel XXV710 dual-port 25 GbE, QLogic 41262 dual-port 25 GbE CNA and Broadcom dual-port 100 GbE (all x8).
Mezz B is wired to processor 2. The guide does not say how Fabric B behaves in a one-processor sled, so confirm connectivity before ordering a single-socket build.
Dell’s PCIe list gives the PERC link as both x8 and x16 Gen4 on consecutive lines; the spec sheet adds two x8 Gen5 connectors for NVMe drives on each processor.
ESXi 9.0 is supported on the sled but not with the QLogic 41262; ESXi 6.5 and 6.7 are limited to four 25 Gb ports.
06 — Power & cooling
No supplies of its own — powered by the chassis
There is no power supply in the sled. The MX760c draws its power from the MX7000, and the single entry below is the chassis supply Dell’s spec sheet names: up to six 3000 W AC Platinum units with grid redundancy.
AC
Dell refers chassis power and thermal detail to the MX7000 Sourcebook; neither the MX760c guide nor its spec sheet gives per-sled power figures.
Cooling comes from the chassis too: its hot-swap fans (five at the rear, four front-accessible, Gen 2 fans required) are controlled by the chassis management module using the sled’s own sensors.
Dell’s acoustic test builds all ran six 3000 W supplies, with four or six sleds installed.
07 — Management, security & OS
Run it, secure it, choose the OS
Management
iDRAC9 with Lifecycle Controller on each sled
iDRAC Direct (front Micro-AB USB)
iDRAC RESTful API with Redfish
iDRAC Service Module
OpenManage Enterprise – Modular on up to two redundant MX9002m modules (chassis)
Quick Sync 2 wireless module option (chassis)
OpenManage Enterprise with Power Manager, Update Manager and Service plug-ins
Data at Rest Encryption (SEDs, local or external key management)
System Lockdown (iDRAC9 Enterprise or Datacenter)
Secure Erase
Optional TPM 2.0 FIPS + Common Criteria + TCG (Nuvoton) or TPM 2.0 China NationZ
Power-off security and top-cover latch
Operating systems
Canonical Ubuntu Server LTS
Microsoft Windows Server with Hyper-V
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
VMware vSAN / ESXi
08 — Compare
MX750c → MX760c
Dell compares the MX760c directly with the MX750c it succeeds in the same MX7000 chassis. Both leave power and fans to the chassis; almost everything inside the sled changes.
previous versionPowerEdge MX750c
PowerEdge 16GPowerEdge MX760c
Processors
Up to 2 × 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable · up to 40 cores, 270 W
Up to 2 × 4th or 5th Gen Xeon Scalable · Dell quotes up to 64 cores, 350 W
Mezz A and B PCIe 4.0 x16 · mini-mezz C PCIe 4.0 x16
Mezz A PCIe 4.0 x16 · Mezz B PCIe 5.0 x16 · mini-mezz C PCIe 4.0 x16
TPM
Optional TPM 1.2 / 2.0
Optional TPM 2.0
Power & fans
From the MX7000 chassis
From the MX7000 chassis (Gen 2 fans)
Source: Dell PowerEdge MX760c Technical Guide, Table 4 (features compared to previous version, MX760c vs MX750c).
The MX760c family side by side
Dell’s 16G two-socket rack servers use the same Xeon Scalable generations (4th and 5th Gen) in rack form; the C6615 is the other modular sled here, built around a single AMD socket instead. The chart lines up each model’s documented limits.
This modelSiblings and successorEach value from that model’s own verified spec file · bars scale per column
Four sled builds sized to the MX760c’s thermal and memory rules. Each loads into the configurator for changes; the MX7000 chassis, its power supplies, fans and fabric modules sit outside these builds.
Virtualisation
Dense VM host on the chassis fabric
Dell pitches the MX760c at dense virtualisation. Two 32-core 6548Y+ processors with sixteen 64 GB RDIMMs keep one DIMM per channel, four NVMe drives in the four-bay sled suit a vSAN tier, and a quad-port 25 GbE mezzanine rides Fabric A.
2 × Xeon Gold 6548Y+ — 32 cores @ 2.5 GHz, 250 W each
16 × 64 GB DDR5 RDIMM — 1 TB at one DIMM per channel
4 × 3.84 TB NVMe in the 4 × 2.5-inch Universal sled
BOSS-N1 boot mirror
Broadcom quad-port 25 GbE mezzanine (Fabric A)
VMware ESXi 9.0
At 250 W the 6548Y+ needs the wider HPR heat sink (24-DIMM limit) and runs its DIMMs at up to 5200 MT/s. Avoid the QLogic 41262 mezzanine with ESXi 9.0.
Two 16-core 6526Y processors keep the core count — and core-based licences — modest, while the PERC H965i MX gives hardware RAID across six NVMe drives in the Universal sled. At 195 W the processors are rated to 35 °C in every storage option.
2 × Xeon Gold 6526Y — 16 cores @ 2.8 GHz, 195 W each
16 × 64 GB DDR5 RDIMM — 1 TB
6 × 3.84 TB NVMe in the 6 × 2.5-inch Universal sled
The full 8 TB needs thirty-two 256 GB DDR5-4800 RDIMMs, which Dell lists with 4th Gen processors. Two 225 W 6448Y parts avoid the HPR heat sink and its 24-DIMM limit, and the four-bay sled escapes the 30 °C cap the 256 GB module carries in the six-bay version.
2 × Xeon Gold 6448Y — 32 cores @ 2.2 GHz, 225 W each
32 × 256 GB DDR5-4800 RDIMM — 8 TB at two DIMMs per channel (4400 MT/s)
4 × 7.68 TB NVMe with PERC H965i MX RAID
BOSS-N1 boot mirror
Broadcom dual-port 100 GbE mezzanine
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
Keep this build out of ASHRAE A3/A4 rooms: Dell doesn’t support RDIMMs of 128 GB or larger there.
With the 8 × E3.S backplane each sled holds eight Gen5 NVMe SSDs — up to 64 per chassis — for a software-defined storage or vSAN cluster inside one MX7000. The 250 W 6542Y is rated to 35 °C in this sled, and a 100 GbE mezzanine carries replication traffic.
2 × Xeon Gold 6542Y — 24 cores @ 2.9 GHz, 250 W each
16 × 32 GB DDR5 RDIMM — 512 GB
8 × 7.68 TB E3.S Gen5 NVMe — 61.44 TB raw
BOSS-N1 boot mirror
Broadcom dual-port 100 GbE mezzanine
Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS
Not for ASHRAE A3/A4 rooms, where Dell excludes E3.S drives; the 6542Y also needs the HPR heat sink (24-DIMM limit).
PERC H965i MX · HBA350i MX · S160 software RAID (spec sheet also lists PERC H755 MX)
Boot
BOSS-N1: 2 × M.2 (480 or 960 GB), hardware RAID 1 · internal USB
Fabric I/O
Mezz A
PCIe Gen4 x16 · processor 1 · Fabric A
Mezz B
PCIe Gen5 x16 · processor 2 · Fabric B
Mini-mezz C
PCIe Gen4 x16 · processor 1 · Fabric C (32 Gb FC or 12 Gb SAS)
Ethernet mezzanines
2- or 4-port 25 GbE (including CNA) · 2-port 100 GbE · two cards maximum
GPU / PCIe slots
None listed
Ports & video
Front
iDRAC Direct (Micro-AB USB) · USB 3.0 · power button
Internal
USB 3.0
Video
Matrox G200 W3 in iDRAC, 16 MB · up to 1920 × 1200
Environment
Standard (A2)
10–35 °C
ASHRAE A3
5–40 °C · processors above 185 W not supported
ASHRAE A4
5–45 °C · processors above 165 W not supported
Maximum operating altitude
3,050 m
11 — FAQ
MX760c questions, answered from the documentation
Does the MX760c work without an MX7000 chassis?
No. It is a compute sled for the PowerEdge MX7000, which takes up to eight of them. The chassis provides power (up to six 3000 W AC Platinum PSUs), every cooling fan, the network fabric modules and chassis management through OpenManage Enterprise – Modular; the sled brings processors, memory, drives, mezzanine cards and its own iDRAC9.
What is the maximum memory of the MX760c?
8 TB, filling all 32 DDR5 slots with 256 GB RDIMMs, which Dell lists with 4th Gen Xeon Scalable. Dell’s 5th Gen thermal matrix only goes up to 128 GB RDIMMs, or 4 TB across 32 slots. Processors above 225 W also need a wider heat sink that limits the sled to 24 DIMMs.
Which processors does the MX760c support?
Twenty-eight Intel Xeon Scalable SKUs: 19 4th Gen (up to 48 cores and 330 W) and 9 5th Gen (up to 32 cores and 300 W). Dell’s overview quotes up to 64 cores and 350 W, but no SKU that large appears in the MX760c processor tables.
How many drives does an MX760c hold?
Up to eight EDSFF E3.S Gen5 NVMe SSDs, or four or six 2.5-inch drives, depending on the backplane the sled is built with; the diskless version is the four-bay sled without drives. Dell’s spec sheet gives maximums of 61 TB (8 × E3.S), 92 TB (6 × 2.5-inch Universal) and 46.08 TB (6 × 2.5-inch SAS/SATA).
What networking does the MX760c have?
No onboard Ethernet port or OCP slot. Two mezzanine slots — A on a Gen4 x16 link, B on Gen5 x16 — take 25 GbE or 100 GbE cards that connect through the MX7000’s Fabric A and B modules, and a mini-mezzanine links 32 Gb Fibre Channel or 12 Gb SAS to Fabric C.
Does the MX760c support GPUs?
Dell’s spec sheet mentions AI inferencing among target workloads, but neither the guide nor the spec sheet lists a GPU or accelerator for the sled, and there is no standard PCIe slot to take one.
Which processors fit the six-drive MX760c?
Not most of the 300 W and 330 W parts: the 8452Y, 8460Y+, 8462Y+, 8468V and 8562Y+ are unsupported with the 6 × 2.5-inch backplane. The 270 W 6430, 6454S and 6444Y and the single-socket 300 W 8461V are supported there only when neighbouring sleds share the same storage layout or are blanked. The four-bay and E3.S sleds take all of them, some at a 30 °C limit.
How big and heavy is the MX760c?
The sled is 257.0 mm wide, 51.0 mm high and 622.35 mm deep (631.77 mm with the E3.S backplane) with the handle closed, and weighs 8.27–8.59 kg with drives fitted. The MX760c documents don’t give the MX7000 chassis dimensions.
What changed from the MX750c?
The MX760c moves from 3rd Gen to 4th and 5th Gen Xeon Scalable and from DDR4 to DDR5 (up to 5600 MT/s, 8 TB of RDIMM), adds an 8 × E3.S NVMe backplane and puts Mezz B on PCIe 5.0. Optane PMem, LRDIMMs and the IDSDM SD-card boot option are gone; the MX7000 chassis, chassis power and iDRAC9 stay.
Is the PowerEdge MX760c end of life?
The MX760c technical guide, revised June 2026, carries no end-of-sale or end-of-service-life date, so Dell gives no model-wide cut-off to plan against. For any later announcement, check our server end-of-life checker.
Sources & verification
Where these figures come from
Dell PowerEdge MX760c Technical Guide (Rev. A05, June 2026) — Table 4 (MX760c vs MX750c), processor Tables 5–6, memory Table 7, controller Table 9, mezzanine Tables 10–11 and PCIe list, thermal matrices Tables 13–14, chassis power and cooling statements, acoustic Table 17, sled dimensions, weight and environment.
Specifications are extracted from Dell’s published documents and independently re-checked line by line. Configurations are quote-based; availability and exact options are confirmed at quotation. Last reviewed 2026-09-11.
