DELL PowerEdge R640 4LFF 2x Xeon Gold 6246R 32GB DDR4 No Drive

4-bay 3.5" rack server for dual-socket workloads

The Dell PowerEdge R640 chassis holds up to four 3.5-inch drives and fits a 1U rack space. Two Xeon Gold 6246R processors run at 3.4 GHz with sixteen cores each, providing thirty-two cores total. Thirty-two gigabytes of DDR4 ECC registered memory are installed in a two-module configuration. The PERC H740P RAID controller manages SATA storage, while iDRAC9 Enterprise enables remote administration.

Suits virtualisation hosts

This configuration targets buyers who want high core counts in a compact form factor with hardware RAID and out-of-band management. The integrated graphics and single 10 GbE two-port adapter limit GPU-accelerated tasks or multi-port networking needs. Buyers who require installed drives, larger memory footprints from the outset, or PCIe add-in cards beyond the available slots should consider alternative chassis.

Dual Xeon Gold 6246R at 3.4 GHz with 16 cores each

The sixteen-core processors deliver thirty-two threads per socket, giving sixty-four threads across the system. This core density drives performance for parallel workloads such as container clusters or transactional databases. The 35.75 MB cache per processor reduces latency on frequent data access. Matching the CPU core count to the application thread count is the primary sizing decision for this server.