DELL PRECISION 5860 TOWER AND 7960 TOWER WORKSTATIONS LAUNCH

» Company’s ‘Sapphire Rapids’ desktop workstations focus exclusively on single-socket Intel Xeon W-2400 and W-3400 workstation processors

release a dedicated rack workstation to support remote graphics deployments. The Precision 7960 Rack is a 2U machine which can support up to two 56-core Intel Xeon Platinum 8480+ processors and up to two double height GPUs.

Beyond CPU and GPU, the Precision 5860 and Precision 7960 differentiate themselves largely by memory capacity and expandability.

The Precision 5860 can be configured with up to 512 GB of DDR5 memory (support for 2 TB will come later with availability of 128 GB and 256 GB DIMMs). It has two lockable front drive bays, support for M.2 SSDs and 2.5-inch/3.5-inch HDDs, and up to 56 TB of total storage.

The mid-size tower is slightly smaller than the Precision 5820 it replaces and comes with a back carry handle.

Dell has launched the Dell Precision 5860 Tower and Precision 7960 Tower, a duo of ‘Sapphire Rapids’ desktop workstations that will replace the company’s ageing ‘Cascade Lake’ Dell Precision 5820 and Precision 7920.

Both workstations are single-socket. The Precision 5860 Tower comes with a choice of Intel Xeon W-2400 processors up to the 24-core Intel Xeon w7-2495X, and supports up to two double-height GPUs, including the Nvidia RTX A6000 and AMD

Radeon Pro W6800.

The Precision 7960 Tower offers Intel Xeon W-3400 processors up to the 56core Intel Xeon w9-3495X and supports up to four double-height GPUs. Dell does not mention the new Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada Lovelace generation for this release. However, we expect support for this super high-end card will follow soon.

Unlike Lenovo and HP, Dell has not launched a dual-socket ‘Sapphire Rapids’ desktop workstation with 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors. However, it is the only one of the major three to

It looks to share the same chassis as the AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro-based Precision 7865 Tower Workstation that launched last year.

The Precision 7960 can be configured with up to 1 TB DDR5 at launch and up to 4 TB post launch (with 128 GB / 256GB DIMMs). It has six lockable front drive bays and up to 152 TB of total storage. It is slightly smaller than the Precision 7920 it replaces, although this was a dual-socket machine. Both workstations offer dual network ports (1G + 10G) and optional Wireless LAN. www.dell.com/precision