Dell EMC Releases Trio Of AMD EPYC Infused PowerEdge Servers

AMD has enjoyed good momentum in the server market since it began its EPYC journey last summer, but today, the company’s enterprise clout has been given a sweet boost with news that Dell EMC is releasing three PowerEdge servers sporting the best tech AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) has to offer.

The three SKUs on offer include the single-sockets R6415 and R7415, as well as the dual-socket R7425. The single-sockets can be scaled up to 32 cores and 64 threads, while the dual-socket doubles each of those. The same rule applies to the memory; 4TB is offered on the dual-socket, and 2TB on the single-socket. The top two models support 24x NVMe drives, which is a considerable gain over the R6415’s 10x.

The beefiest of the three servers, R7425, comes with the juiciest set of specs, as you’d expect. There’s a doubling-up on 10GbE pipes, as well as the inclusion of dual 25GbE connections. Being the only dual-socket server of the bunch, the R7425 includes up to 8x PCIe slots with up to 6 x16 lanes.

There isn’t a workload AMD is scared of EPYC tackling. SVP and GM of AMD’s Datacenter group Forrest Norrod says, “The Dell EMC portfolio of AMD EPYC systems excel in a wide range of workloads, including dense virtualization, hybrid-cloud applications, software-defined storage, CAD/CAM, and other memory and I/O dependent applications.” The memory point could be emphasized, because with support for 4TB of RAM behind an 8-channel memory controller, EPYC was quite literally made for the most gluttonous memory-bound workloads.

If you’re interested in either one of these servers (and really, who isn’t?), you can hit up AMD’s portal to check out all three in one fell swoop.

Photos above pulled from an official Dell how-to video.