DELL PowerEdge R940 3U Rack Server 4x Xeon Gold 5118 2.3GHz 12-Core 128GB DDR4 8x 300GB SAS H730P

Four-Socket Xeon Gold 5118 Server

The Dell PowerEdge R940 is a 3U rack server built around four Intel Xeon Gold 5118 processors running at 2.3 GHz with twelve cores each. It ships with 128 GB of DDR4 registered ECC memory across forty-eight slots and a PERC H730P controller driving eight 300 GB 10K SAS drives. Redundant 1600 W platinum power supplies and iDRAC9 Enterprise remote management are included.

Suits dense compute, not GPU

This system targets workloads that benefit from forty-eight cores and large memory capacity in a compact rack footprint, such as virtualization hosts, in-memory databases or high-performance computing nodes. Buyers who need GPU acceleration, more than eight 2.5-inch drive bays, or a tower form factor should look elsewhere.

Four-processor LGA 3647 limit defines expandability

The motherboard supports a maximum of four processors and all four sockets are already populated with Xeon Gold 5118 CPUs, so no further CPU upgrades are possible without replacing the installed chips. Memory can still scale to 6 TB using the remaining DDR4 slots.