DELL PowerEdge M640 blade server 2× Xeon Gold 6230 20-core 64GB DDR4 2× 960GB SSD

Built for dense compute

The Dell PowerEdge M640 is a half-height blade server that fits into PowerEdge MX or M1000e chassis. Two Intel Xeon Gold 6230 processors give 20 cores each at 2.1 GHz with a 3.9 GHz turbo, and 64 GB of DDR4 ECC memory is installed across four slots. The PERC S140 controller manages two 960 GB SATA SSDs in RAID 0, 1, 5 or 10, while a Broadcom 57810S-K card provides dual 10 Gb network ports and iDRAC9 Enterprise handles remote management.

Suits virtualisation and HPC clusters

This blade targets workloads that scale across many nodes, such as virtualisation farms, private cloud infrastructure or high-performance computing jobs that benefit from high core counts in a small footprint. It is not for buyers who need GPU acceleration, large local storage arrays, or workloads that require more than 64 GB of memory without adding modules.

20 cores per processor at 2.1 GHz

The defining specification is the dual Xeon Gold 6230 configuration: 20 cores per socket at a 2.1 GHz base frequency with 3.9 GHz turbo. That core count and clock speed set the performance envelope for any workload deployed on this blade.