19 PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Technical Guide
The R720 and R720xd support up to two processors with up to eight cores per processor. Table 6 
lists the Intel Xeon processors supported by the PowerEdge R720 and R720xd. For the latest 
information on supported processors, visit Dell.com. 
 
1
R720 only; not supported on R720xd. 
For information on processor installation and configuration, see the 
Dell PowerEdge R720 and 
R720xd Owner’s Manual
 on Support.Dell.com/Manuals.  
Graphics processing unit (GPU) technology is supported on the R720, which can provide 
accelerated performance for a variety of applications, including virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) 
and high-performance computing (HPC) implementations.  
The R720xd does not support internal or external GPUs.  
The R720 can support two 300W, full-length, double-wide GPUs or up to four 150W, full-length, 
single-wide GPUs. Each GPU can support up to 6GB of dedicated GDDR5 memory. Active-cooled 
GPU cards are not supported. For a list of supported GPUs, see Table 18.