Technical Guide

System overview
The Dell™ PowerEdge™ R450 is Dell's latest 2-socket, 1 U rack servers designed to run complex workloads using highly scalable
memory, I/O, and network options. The systems feature 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Processor Scalable Family , up to 16
DIMMs, PCI Express® (PCIe) 4.0 enabled expansion slots, and a choice of network interface technologies to cover NIC. The
R450 is a general-purpose platform capable of handling demanding workloads and applications, such as data warehouses,
ecommerce, databases, and high-performance computing (HPC).
Topics:
• Key workloads
• New technologies
Key workloads
The target workloads for the PowerEdge R450 include light duty virtualization, small IT infrastructure, and small business
specific workloads.
New technologies
Technology
Detailed Description
3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Processor Core count: Up to 24 per processor supported on R450
UPI speed: Up to 3x UPIs/Socket at 10.4 GT/s or 11.2 GT/s
Maximum number of PCIe lanes: Integrated 64 PCIe 4.0 lanes
@ 16 GT/s PCIe Gen4
Maximum TDP: 185 W
3200 MT/s DDR4 Memory
NOTE: Maximum memory speed depends on the
processor specification. See Supported Processors table
for the processor type and the supported memory speed.
Maximum 8 DIMMs per processor and 16 DIMMs in total
Supports DDR4 ECC RDIMM, with ECC up to 2933 MT/s
on R450 as the memory speed depends on the processor
supported by the system.
Flex IO
LOM, 2x 1 Gb with BCM5720 LAN controller
Rear IO with 1 Gb Dedicated Management Network Port, USB
3.0 x1, USB 2.0 x1 and VGA port
Serial port option
OCP Mezz 3.0 (supported by x16 PCIe lanes)
Dedicated PERC Front storage module PERC with front PERC 10.5 and PERC
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Software RAID OS RAID/S150
Power Supplies
60 mm dimension is the new PSU form factor on 15G design
● Platinum 600 W AC/HVDC
● Platinum 800 W AC/HVDC
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