DELL Servers Generations Cheatsheet

Over the years, DELL has released a huge amount of servers, with ever evolving characteristics and functionalities. To keep things in mind, here is my personal cheatsheet 🗒

DELL servers naming convention

DELL servers have a name composed of a letter and 3 or 4 digits. In the example server DELL R6515:

• R stands for rack, could also be T for tower or M for modular (traditional blade servers)
• 6 is the series (series 1 to 3 have a single-socket, series 4 to 7 are dual-socket server, series 8 has 2 or 4 sockets and series 9 has 4 sockets)
• 5 is the generation (15th gen)
• the last digit (5 in the example) indicate the CPU manufacturer (0 for Intel, 5 for AMD)
• if the server name has 4 digits, the penultimate digit (1 in the example) indicates the number of CPU’s.

Generation 13

• Introduced in 2014
• Supports PCI(e) 3.0
• RAM: DDR4

CPU from Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5

• Skylake
• 4 cores
• https://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Xeon/TYPE-Xeon%20E3-1200%20v5.html

To Intel Xeon E7-4800 v4

• Broadwell
• Up to 16 cores
• https://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Xeon/TYPE-Xeon%20E7-4800%20v4.html

Generation 14

• Launched in 2017
• PCI(e) 3.0
• DDR4
• Support Intel Xeon Scalable Processors and NVMe storage

CPU from Intel Xeon E-2100

• Coffee Lake
• 4 cores
• https://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Xeon_E/TYPE-Xeon%20E-2100%20series.html

To Intel Xeon Platinum

• Skylake
• Up to 28 cores
• https://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Xeon/TYPE-Xeon%20Platinum.html

Or AMD EPYC 1st generation

• Up to 32 cores
• https://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Zen/TYPE-EPYC%207001%20series.html

Generation 15

• Launched in 2021
• DDR4
• PCI(e) 4.0

2nd and 3rd generation AMD EPYC

• Up to 64 cores
• https://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Zen/TYPE-EPYC%207002%20series.html

From Intel Xeon series E-2300

• 4 cores
• https://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Xeon_E/TYPE-Xeon%20E-2300%20series.html

To 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable

• Up to 40 cores

Generation 16

• Launched in 2023
• DDR5
• PCI(e) 4.0 and 5.0

4th Generation AMD EPYC

• up to 128 cores

From Intel Xeon E-2400

• 8 cores

To 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor

• up to 60 cores

Generation 17

• Launched in 2024
• DDR5
• PCI(e) 5.0
• supports Enterprise and Data Center Standard Form Factor (EDSFF) storage

5th Generation AMD EPYC

• up to 160 cores

Intel Xeon 6 processors

• up to 144 E-cores
• or 86 P-cores

References

• https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000137343/how-to-identify-which-generation-your-dell-poweredge-server-belongs-to#bs_PENamingTable
• https://www.cpu-world.com/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PowerEdge_servers
• https://www.delltechnologies.com/asset/en-ph/products/servers/technical-support/poweredge-r770-spec-sheet.pdf

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