DELL PowerEdge R940 3U Rack Server 4× Xeon Gold 6142 2.6GHz 16-Core 128GB DDR4 8× 300GB SAS H730P

Four-Socket Xeon Server for Dense Compute

The Dell PowerEdge R940 packs four Xeon Gold 6142 processors, each with 16 cores at 2.6 GHz, into a 3U rack chassis. It ships with 128 GB of DDR4 registered ECC memory across 48 slots and a PERC H730P controller driving eight 300 GB 10K SAS drives. Redundant 1600 W platinum power supplies and iDRAC9 Enterprise management complete the package.

Suits High-Thread Workloads.

This system targets virtualisation hosts, in-memory databases and multi-threaded analytics that benefit from 64 total cores and large memory capacity. The quad-port X520/I350 daughter card provides two 1 GbE and two 10 Gb SFP+ links for network segmentation. Buyers who need GPU acceleration or all-flash arrays should evaluate other platforms.

64 Cores at 2.6 GHz Base Decide Fit

The decisive specification is the combined 64 cores running at a 2.6 GHz base frequency with 3.7 GHz turbo across four sockets. Workloads that scale across many threads will use this capacity; single-threaded tasks or licence-constrained software tied to core counts may not justify the density.