Dell PowerEdge T560Specifications, configurations & comparisons

Sixteen DDR5 RDIMM slots, eight per processor. With the 96 GB module Dell lists, all sixteen slots give 1.5 TB, the figure on Dell’s spec sheet; the technical guide’s comparison table prints 1 TB. The 96 GB module is a 5600 MT/s part, a rating Dell applies to 5th Gen processors, and it needs HPR fans.

Twenty-one. Fifteen are 4th Gen Xeon Scalable (up to 32 cores) and six are 5th Gen (up to 28), with TDPs from 125 W to 225 W. One or two can be fitted; the exception is the 5512U, which Dell’s table lists with no UPI link, so plan it as a single-processor build.

Up to 24 at the front with 2.5-inch SAS/SATA drives, or 12 with 3.5-inch drives. Dell also offers 8 and 16 × 2.5-inch, 8 × 3.5-inch, and 8 × 3.5-inch plus 8 × 2.5-inch NVMe. Dell’s riser table rules out rear storage in every configuration (one acoustic test build does list a two-bay rear backplane); boot can go on a BOSS-N1 M.2 module instead.

Two double-wide cards — NVIDIA A40 or L40 at 300 W, or the 165 W A30 — or up to six single-wide A2 or five L4 cards. Double-wide 300 W cards need eight HPR fans, dual-riser layouts need two processors, and no GPU is supported in ASHRAE A3 or A4.

Up to six. Slots 1 and 2 are x16 Gen5, full length, on the GPU risers; slots 3, 4 and 6 are x16 Gen4 and slot 5 is an x16 connector with eight lanes. There is also one OCP 3.0 slot (Gen4, x8, or x16 with an OCP cable) and a 2 × 1GbE LOM.

Two supplies in 1+1 redundancy, picked from eleven options between 600 W and 2800 W. Two take non-standard feeds: a −48 V DC model at 1100 W, and a 1400 W Titanium rated for 277 VAC or 336 V DC. Fed from 100–120 V, both 1100 W and 1400 W AC models are cut back to 1050 W and the 2400 W model to 1400 W, while the 700 W, 1800 W and 2800 W need a 200–240 V feed.

Dell’s documents disagree: the spec sheet promises office-friendly acoustics, but the technical guide calls the T560 appropriate for an attended data centre, adding that the right hardware or software configuration can lower its output, and measured 35–43 dB idle and up to 72 dB operating across its test builds. It is also a large machine — 464 mm tall on its feet, 200 mm wide, 678.2 mm deep with the bezel and up to 48 kg fully populated. 25 Gb NICs, GPUs of 75 W or more, NVMe drives and higher-TDP processors all push the fans harder.

The T360 is the single-socket option: one Xeon 6300, E-2400 or Pentium, four UDIMM slots capped at 128 GB, up to eight 3.5-inch bays and one 60 W A2 GPU. The T560 takes one or two Xeon Scalable processors, 16 RDIMM slots, up to 24 bays and two double-wide 300 W GPUs. Dell’s T360 guide calls that model appropriate for typical offices, whereas the T560 guide points to an attended data centre (the T560 spec sheet, though, calls it office-friendly).

The chassis dimensions are the same, but the T560 moves from 3rd Gen Xeon and DDR4-3200 to 4th and 5th Gen Xeon with DDR5 at up to 5200 MT/s, lists two of its six slots as x16 Gen5 (the T550 listed Gen4 and Gen3 slots plus two x16 GPU slots as an upsell), and adds a 12 × 3.5-inch front, a sixth single-wide GPU and supplies up to 2800 W. Dell lists its OCP slot as x8, against x16 on the T550.

Dell’s T560 technical guide (December 2024, Rev. A04) gives no date for end of sale or end of service. Post Standard Support appears in its services appendix, lengthening hardware cover by up to five years once ProSupport’s first seven years are over. For current status, see our end-of-life checker.