Technical Guide

Table Of Contents
System overview
The Dell EMC PowerEdge R650xs is Dell's latest 2-socket, 1 U rack servers designed to run complex workloads using highly
scalable memory, I/O, and network options. The systems feature the 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon Scalable Processor , up to 16
DIMMs, PCI Express
®
(PCIe) 4 .0 enabled expansion slots, and a choice of network interface technologies to cover NIC.
The PowerEdge R650xs is a general-purpose platform capable of handling demanding workloads and applications, such as data
warehouses, ecommerce, databases, and high-performance computing (HPC).
Topics:
Key workloads
New technologies
Key workloads
The target workloads for the PowerEdge R650xs include virtualization, public/private cloud, scale-out database, and high-
performance compute .
New technologies
Table 1. New technologies
Technology Detailed Description
3rd Generation Intel® Xeon Scalable
Processor
Core count: Up to 32 per processor
UPI speed: Up to 3x UPIs/Socket at 10.4 GT/s or 11.2 GT/s
Maximum number of PCIe lanes: Integrated 64 PCIe 4.0 lanes @ 16 GT/s PCIe
Gen4
Maximum TDP: 220 W
3200 MT/s DDR4 Memory
Maximum 8 DIMMs per processor and 16 DIMMs in total
Supports DDR4 ECC RDIMM, with ECC up to 3200 MT/s
Flex I/O
LOM board, 2 x 1 GB with BCM5720 LAN controller
Rear IO with 1 GB Dedicated Management Network Port, USB 3.0 x1, USB 2.0 x1
and VGA port
OCP Mezz 3.0 (supported by x16 PCIe lanes)
Serial port option
Dedicated PERC Front storage module PERC with front PERC 10.5 and PERC 11
Software RAID OS RAID / S150
Power Supplies 60 mm dimension is the new PSU form factor on 15G design
600 W DC/240 V
600 W Platinum AC/100 - 240 V
800 W DC/240 V
800 W Platinum AC/100 - 240 V
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