Dell Announces PowerEdge AI Servers Fueled By AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs And EPYC CPUs

If you're among the horde of companies looking to integrate AI services into your workflows yet unwilling to pay OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, or Anthropic exorbitant API fees for their advanced models, why not host it yourself? That's exactly the pitch from Dell, who has just launched a new family of server products offering extremely high-performance AI solutions specifically targeted at improving AI adoption.

The highlights here are the PowerEdge XE9785 and especially its liquid-cooled sibling, the XE9785L. These machines pack in a pair of AMD EPYC CPUs along with fully eight of AMD's Instinct MI355X GPUs per node. In the liquid-cooled variation, 'per node' is just 3 rack units, meaning that you can pack in a massive 128 MI355X GPUs in a single standard 42U rack. That gives you more theoretical performance and more memory per rack versus both AMD's last-generation MI300X chips, as well as ...