Dell PowerEdge XE servers: which models take H200 NVL cards and which are HGX B300 systems

Dell PowerEdge XE GPU support in November 2026

Dell's PowerEdge XE line holds two kinds of GPU server. The PowerEdge XE7740 and XE7745 are 4U air-cooled servers for PCIe cards, and Dell's documents list each with up to eight NVIDIA H200 NVL or eight NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition cards at 600 W. The PowerEdge XE9780 and XE9785 in 10U, and the liquid-cooled XE9780L, XE9780LAP and XE9785L, carry eight GPUs on NVIDIA's HGX B300 baseboard and take no PCIe GPU card.

The models below follow Dell's documents as read on 12 November 2026: the technical guide of each model, the PowerEdge XE product page in its Irish, US and Austrian editions and the PowerEdge Server GPU Matrix Data Sheet of October 2026. We supply Dell PowerEdge XE servers per project across the EU, as card servers or as HGX B300 systems; send us the model, the GPUs and the rack position and we reply with a written quote within one business day.

Three names keep the two kinds apart. The H200 NVL is a PCIe card of up to 600 W for the XE7740 and XE7745. HGX H200 is a baseboard with eight H200 modules and belongs to the older XE9680 and XE9680L. HGX B300 is the baseboard of the XE9780 family, which Dell writes as "NVIDIA HGX B300" or "NVIDIA HGX B300 NVL8". NVIDIA's generation name for the B300, Blackwell Ultra, stands in Dell's spec sheet for the rack-scale XE9712; the XE9780 guide does not use it.

The XE models on Dell's product page

Dell's PowerEdge XE page shows ten models in its Irish and Austrian editions and eight in the US edition, where the XE9680L and XE9685L are missing as read. The GPU column repeats what each product card prints.

Dell's "PowerEdge XE servers" page, Irish edition, modified 26 October 2026; US edition of the same date and Austrian edition of 27 October 2026; Dell technical guides and spec sheets as named. Read 12 November 2026. Heights of the XE9785 and XE9785L are taken from their technical guides.

Two product cards differ from the guides: the XE9785 card gives the height as "1OU" and the XE9785L card as "3U", where the guides describe a 10U rack server and a 3 OU compute node. The XE9785 card also names only the AMD accelerator, although the guide of May 2026 lists the server with eight HGX B300 GPUs as well. The XE9712 and XE8712 are rack-scale systems with NVIDIA Grace processors in Dell's IR9000 and IR7000 racks. They take neither H200 NVL cards nor an HGX B300 baseboard; they are outside this page and outside what we supply.

XE7740 and XE7745 with eight H200 NVL or RTX PRO 6000 Server Edition cards

The two card servers share their chassis dimensions and differ in the processors.

"Dell PowerEdge XE7740 Technical Guide", Rev. A04, April 2026, and "Dell PowerEdge XE7745 Technical Guide", Rev. A09, September 2026, read 12 November 2026. Card names as Dell writes them; counts from each guide's GPU support list, temperatures from its thermal restriction matrix.

Dell's guides call the card "RTX Pro 6000" and the GPU matrix writes "RTX Pro 6000 BSE". Dell's undated datasheet for the card in these two servers spells the name out: "Up to 8 × RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition" per node. It gives the card's power as "configurable between 450W & 600W" and about 8 kW for a node with eight cards at full load, marked "indicative only". Both guides state that the system "does not support user power cap". A footnote in the XE7740 guide raises the ambient limit to 35 °C when four of these cards sit in the middle PCIe slots. Other makers' servers for this card are in our list of servers compatible with the RTX PRO 6000 Server Edition.

For the H200 NVL the XE7740 guide fixes the bridge layout: "For four GPUs, one 4-way bridge is needed, while for eight DW H200 GPU cards, two bridges are required." It adds that bridging H200 cards "under different CPUs" is possible but "not recommended". Eight cards therefore form two NVLink domains of four, which our articles on the H200 NVL NVLink bridge and on what eight H200 NVL in one server run work through. The part of the XE7745 guide we read contains no bridge sentence, so have the layout for that server confirmed with the configuration.

The XE7745 guide lists one more card, an "NVIDIA RTX Pro 4500", single-wide, with eight per server and without an edition. The GPU matrix writes "RTX Pro 4500 BSE", and the passive single-slot card of that name is the RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition with 32 GB and 165 W in NVIDIA's datasheet, which we also supply as a card: buy the RTX PRO 4500 Server Edition. In the XE7740 guide as read, the card does not appear.

An XE7740 with eight RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition cards has a verified result in MLPerf® Inference v6.1; the other eight-card servers of that round are in our MLPerf Inference v6.1 comparison of PCIe GPU servers.

MLPerf® Inference: Datacenter v6.1, closed division, Llama 2 70B (llama2-70b-99.9), offline and server scenarios, entry 6.1-0036 (Dell PowerEdge XE7740, eight RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition), retrieved from mlcommons.org on 24 October 2026. Result verified by MLCommons Association. The MLPerf name and logo are registered and unregistered trademarks of MLCommons Association in the United States and other countries. All rights reserved. Unauthorized use strictly prohibited. See www.mlcommons.org for more information.

Power supplies and inlet air for eight 600 W cards

Both servers have eight power-supply bays in two zones. The XE7740 guide instructs: "To ensure full redundancy, install N+N number of PSUs in each zone, i.e., 1+1 in CPU zone and 3+3 in GPU zone." The XE7745 guide names the same 1+1 and 3+3. The guides list a 2,400 W and a 3,200 W Titanium unit for 200 to 240 V AC and a second 3,200 W unit for 277 V AC. The 3,200 W unit reaches its rating from 220.1 V; between 200 and 220 V Dell rates it at 2,900 W. Our article on PSU redundancy in GPU servers explains N+N on two feeds, and GPU server power on 16 A, 32 A and three-phase works out the feeds.

The 30 °C limit for eight H200 NVL or eight RTX PRO 6000 Server Edition cards is the figure to compare with the room, since the other cards in the table are listed up to 35 °C. Our guide to GPU server inlet temperature explains where to measure before the order.

XE9780 and XE9785 with HGX B300 in 10U

The XE9780 and the XE9785 are 10U rack servers cooled by air. Their GPUs are modules on a baseboard: eight B300 GPUs of 1,100 W each on NVIDIA's HGX B300, in Dell's words "fully interconnected with NVIDIA NVLink technology".

Dell technical guides for the PowerEdge XE9780 (Rev. A03, August 2026), XE9785 (Rev. A03, May 2026), XE9780L/XE9780LAP (Rev. A01, January 2026) and XE9785L (Rev. A00, November 2025), read 12 November 2026.

Dell prints two memory figures for the same GPU. The guides for the XE9780, XE9785 and XE9785L and the "PowerEdge XE AI spec sheet" (Rev A07) say 288 GB; the guide for the XE9780L and XE9780LAP and Dell's US product page for the XE9780 say 270 GB. NVIDIA's documents for its own DGX B300 carry two figures as well, 288 GB per GPU in the user guide and 2.1 TB for the eight GPUs together on the product page and in the datasheet, as our DGX B300 specifications set out. A request is clear when it names the baseboard, HGX B300 with eight GPUs.

With the B300 baseboard the XE9780 keeps up to four PCIe Gen5 x16 slots of full height and half length, and no document of the family lists an H200 NVL or any other PCIe GPU card. The XE9780 guide asks for more than 2 TB of system memory with B300. The guides for the XE9780 and the XE9780L list the HGX B200 baseboard as a second option.

Twelve 3,200 W Titanium supplies feed the server in a layout the guide calls "Full redundant (6+6) FR"; from 200 to 216 V each supply is rated at 2,900 W. Eight GPUs at 1,100 W are 8.8 kW by our arithmetic, before processors, memory, drives and fans. For orientation, NVIDIA's datasheet of February 2026 lists its own DGX B300 at 15.1 kW with twelve 3.2 kW supplies; a Dell server is planned on Dell's figure for the configuration.

The rails are static, and Dell warns: "Chassis length is longer than usual, need to consider potential interferences with the rear mounted PDU or the rear rack door when installed on rack." Our site survey for GPU servers lists what to measure, and DGX B300, HGX B300 and DGX B200 explains how a maker's HGX server differs from NVIDIA's own system.

XE9780L, XE9780LAP and XE9785L for Dell's 21-inch rack

The three L models are nodes for a 21-inch rack. Dell describes the XE9780L and XE9780LAP as a "3 OU compute node that is installed in the IR7044 and IR7050", with one OU equal to 48 mm of height, and the node is 537 mm wide. Processors and GPU modules are liquid-cooled, and fans cool the rest. The node has no power supplies of its own: a shelf in the rack holds six 5,500 W supplies, 33 kW in total, and Dell states that it supports N+1.

These nodes are planned together with Dell's rack, the liquid cooling and the power shelf, so the facility questions come first; our guide to liquid cooling for GPU racks covers them.

HGX B300 systems are supplied per project: before we can quote, the distribution asks for the company, the project and the intended use. Describe the project and the site, and we check price and availability for it.

Dell XE9680 and H200, the older HGX generation

Searches for a Dell PowerEdge XE9680 with H200 lead to a 6U air-cooled system with two Intel Xeon Scalable processors of the fourth or fifth generation. Its technical guide, Rev. A09 of July 2025, lists eight GPUs on an HGX baseboard, among them "8x NVIDIA HGX H100 80GB 700W SXM5 GPUs" and "8x NVIDIA HGX H200 141GB 700W SXM5 GPUs". It lists no B200 and no B300. The H200 in this server is the SXM module on the baseboard, a different product from the H200 NVL card; H200 NVL vs H200 SXM compares the two.

As read on 12 November 2026, none of the three editions of Dell's XE page shows the XE9680, and the GPU matrix of October 2026 has no column for it, while the guide is still online. None of these documents says whether Dell has ended sales. The liquid-cooled 4U XE9680L lists HGX H200 and HGX B200 in its guide of June 2026, and the XE9685L lists HGX B200 only. For the H200 as a PCIe card, the models on Dell's page are the XE7740 and the XE7745 with the H200 NVL; our guide to buying H200 NVL in the EU explains the card, the bridges and the licence that comes with it.

Announced XE models with Rubin GPUs

Five further model names exist in Dell press releases only. On 16 March 2026 Dell announced the XE9812, which "leverages the NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 platform". The same release names the XE9880L, XE9882L and XE9885L as "liquid-cooled servers featuring NVIDIA HGX™ Rubin NVL8". On 22 June 2026 Dell announced the XE8812 with the "NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL4 architecture". None of the five is on the XE pages modified on 26 and 27 October 2026 or in the GPU matrix of October 2026. Beyond these quotations, this page prints nothing about them.

How Dell words support, and what a quote needs

Dell defines none of its status words. The tables in the guides are headed "GPU support list". The GPU matrix explains "✓ = Supported" and "(qty) - max number of GPUs allowed", cautions that the "maximum number of GPUs allowed might differ in different configurations on the same platform", and marks some cards "Currently available as Customer Install only". Features in a guide can carry the notes "post RTS" or "Feature not available at initial product launch." The matrix of October 2026 has rows for "NVIDIA H200 NVL", "NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 BSE" and "NVIDIA RTX Pro 4500 BSE". Which column carries which tick could not be read reliably from the extracted text, so the counts on this page come from the technical guides.

For service, the XE7740 guide names the tiers Basic Hardware Support, ProSupport for Infrastructure and ProSupport Plus for Infrastructure and states that "ProSupport Plus is recommended for PowerEdge XE servers"; Dell's product pages add: "Availability and terms of Dell Services vary by region." What the makers expect on site is covered in on-site service for GPU servers. The documents read contain no limitation specific to the EU for the H200 NVL, the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition or HGX B300.

A quote for a Dell XE server needs the model, the GPUs and their number, processors and memory, the supply voltage and redundancy at the rack position, the inlet temperature and the rack depth. We check the rack, power and airflow before we quote, and the quote confirms quantities and lead time in writing. The same questions for another maker are answered in HPE ProLiant servers for AI and Supermicro's HGX B300 server SYS-822GS-NB3RT.

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