The new PowerEdge servers fall under the Dell EMC brand. The servers have been redesigned to leverage every single innovation of the 64-core, 128-thread AMD EPYC Rome . Among those innovations are a PCIe Gen 4.0 (peripheral component interconnect express) motherboard interface, 64 Gbps (gigabytes per second) bandwidth, and embedded security. Moreover, it has up to 26% more PCIe lanes and a 60% faster fabric interconnect than its predecessor, Naples. AMD significantly improved EPYC’s performance with Rome. The improvements make it ideal for HPC (high-performance computing), databases, and virtual desktop infrastructures.

Dell has also added Ready Solutions for HPC and Ready Nodes for vSAN hyperconverged infrastructure to its new PowerEdge servers. With these additions, it has optimized its servers for emerging workloads such as HPC and virtualization. According to CRN, the servers are also suitable for data analytics, software-defined storage, virtualization, multicloud implementation, and edge computing. The CRN article, citing Dell senior vice president of product management for server and infrastructure systems Ravi Pendekanti, stated that these servers set new records for certain workloads:

The single-socket PowerEdge R7515 delivered 280% better virtualized database performance than its AMD Naples–powered predecessors.

The dual-socket PowerEdge C6525’s performance based on the SAP Sales and Distribution benchmark was 202% better.

The two single-socket servers, the R6515 and R7515, are available immediately. Next month, the two dual-socket servers, the R6525 and C6525, are due to hit the market. The R7525 is expected to arrive in early 2020.