4U 4-Socket Enterprise Server — 240 Cores, 16 TB DDR5, 12 PCIe Gen5 Slots, 24 NVMe
The Dell PowerEdge R960 is Dell's flagship 4-socket enterprise rack server, engineered for the largest business-critical databases and analytics workloads. With four 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (up to 60 cores each, 240 total), 64 DDR5 DIMM slots supporting 16 TB memory, 12 × x16 PCIe Gen5 expansion slots, and support for up to 24 NVMe drives, it provides the scale-up compute foundation for SAP HANA, Oracle, SQL Server, and AI platforms.
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Up to four 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with up to 60 cores per socket and optional Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT). Maximum configuration: 240 cores in a single 4U system — the highest core density available from Dell in a standard rack server.
64 registered DDR5 DIMM slots (16 per processor socket) support up to 16 TB of ECC-protected memory at 4800 MT/s — enabling the largest in-memory database instances (SAP HANA, Oracle, SQL Server) without slower I/O-based database access.
Twelve × x16 PCIe Gen5 expansion slots provide unmatched I/O bandwidth for dense GPU, HPC accelerator, 100/200GbE NIC, and high-throughput NVMe storage controller configurations — all at PCIe Gen5 speeds.
Up to 4 × 400W double-wide GPU accelerators for AI inference, data analytics, and VDI. Twelve PCIe Gen5 slots provide room for GPU plus high-speed networking and storage controllers simultaneously.
Up to 24 × 2.5-inch NVMe SSDs (max 368.64 TB) or 32 × 2.5-inch SAS/SATA drives (max 491.52 TB) in the 4U chassis. Alternatively, 16 × 2.5-inch SAS/SATA + 8 × NVMe mixed configuration supported.
Silicon root of trust, Secured Component Verification (SPDM-based hardware integrity from factory), cryptographically signed firmware, MFA iDRAC access, TPM 2.0, Secure Boot, and Secure Erase for end-of-life data sanitisation.
The Dell PowerEdge R960 is Dell's most powerful standard rack server — a 4U, four-socket platform engineered specifically for scale-up enterprise applications that demand the highest possible single-system compute, memory, and I/O capacity. Supporting four 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with up to 60 cores each (240 total cores), it provides the parallelism required for large in-memory databases, real-time analytics, and complex simulation workloads.
Memory capacity is a defining feature: 64 DDR5 DIMM slots across four processor sockets accommodate up to 16 TB of registered ECC memory at 4800 MT/s. For SAP HANA scale-up configurations, Oracle Database In-Memory, and SQL Server running at multi-terabyte working set sizes, this memory capacity allows the entire production dataset to reside in DRAM — eliminating I/O-bound database bottlenecks entirely.
PCIe connectivity matches the memory tier: 12 × x16 PCIe Gen5 expansion slots deliver the I/O bandwidth necessary to serve 240 CPU cores simultaneously — with room for up to 4 double-wide GPU accelerators alongside 100GbE networking and high-performance storage controllers. This I/O density, previously exclusive to 8U platforms, is available in the R960's 4U form factor.
Storage configurations scale from moderate to extreme: 24 × 2.5-inch NVMe drives (368.64 TB), 32 × 2.5-inch SAS/SATA (491.52 TB), or mixed NVMe+SAS configurations provide tiered storage within the chassis. Intel QAT acceleration — available in most 4th Gen Xeon Scalable processors — offloads encryption and compression operations to hardware, freeing CPU cores for application execution.
Up to 16 TB DDR5 in-memory capacity and 240 processor cores make the R960 the natural choice for large SAP HANA scale-up deployments, Oracle Database, and SQL Server at enterprise scale.
Twelve PCIe Gen5 slots accommodate GPU accelerators alongside the CPU compute — running mixed CPU/GPU analytics pipelines, Apache Spark, and real-time decision platforms.
240 processor cores and 16 TB DDR5 provide exceptional VM density — consolidating workloads from multiple 2-socket servers onto a single R960 with superior performance-per-rack-unit economics.
Hot-swap redundant PSUs, Cyber Resilient Architecture, and iDRAC9 remote management deliver the uptime and security requirements of mission-critical financial, healthcare, and government deployments.
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