Dell PowerEdge M640 Blade 2x Xeon Gold 6150 18C 64GB 2x960GB SSD H330 57810S-K iDRAC9 Enterprise

Half-height blade server for dense compute

The Dell PowerEdge M640 is a half-height blade server that fits the PowerEdge MX and M1000e chassis. It ships with two Intel Xeon Gold 6150 processors, each running 18 cores at 2.70 GHz with a 3.7 GHz turbo frequency. Installed memory is 64 GB of DDR4 across four 16 GB modules, leaving twelve slots open for expansion up to 1.5 TB. The PERC H330 controller manages two 960 GB SATA SSDs in a 2.5-inch bay.

Suits virtualisation and HPC clusters.

This blade targets virtualisation, private cloud and high-performance computing clusters that need maximum CPU density per rack unit. The dual 18-core configuration and large memory ceiling support heavy multi-threaded workloads. Buyers who need GPU acceleration, local NVMe storage or a standalone tower or rack-mount form factor should look elsewhere because the half-height blade design excludes full-length add-in cards and requires a compatible MX or M1000e enclosure.

Dual 18-core Xeon Gold 6150 CPUs

The decisive specification is the pair of Intel Xeon Gold 6150 processors delivering 36 total cores at 2.70 GHz base and 3.7 GHz turbo. This core count and frequency determine whether the blade meets the throughput requirements for your virtualisation host or compute cluster. All other resources — memory slots, drive bays and the 10 Gb dual-port network card — scale around this CPU foundation.