In brief: Computex 2024 is well in the rearview but with a show that size, it’s inevitable that some interesting hardware will slip through the coverage cracks. Case in point is the Gigabyte R283-ZK0, a server board sporting a whopping 48 DDR5 RDIMM slots in a standard 2U form factor.
The dual AMD Epyc board (Socket SP5) packs 24 RDIMM slots per CPU in a unique grouping of 6-2-4 on one side of each CPU socket and 4-2-2-4 on the opposite side. In total, the board supports up to 24 TB of memory (512 GB x 48).
As Serve the Home highlights, the CPU sockets can’t sit directly next to each other due to limited real estate. Instead, they are positioned diagonally from one another. It may look a bit unconventional, but it works.
Gigabyte’s R283-ZK0 supports dual AMD Epyc 9004 series processors – each of which can come equipped with up to 128 cores / 256 threads – and is “ready for” select next-gen Epyc chips. You also get dual 1Gb/s LAN ports, eight 2.5-inch Gen5 NVMe hot-swappable bays, four 2.5-inch SATA/SAS-4 bays at the rear, two M.2 slots with PCIe Gen3 x4 and x2 interface, four FHHL PCIe Gen5 x16 slots, and two OCP 3.0 Gen5 x16 slots. The unit accepts up to dual 2,700W 80 Plus Titanium power supplies for redundancy.
Gigabyte does not have any information about the platform on its website as of this writing, but rest assured it’ll cost a pretty penny. To get you in the ballpark, a single AMD Epyc 9004 series processor with 128 cores comes in at nearly $10,000. Samsung showed off 512 GB DDR5 for servers back in 2021, but pricing and availability still seem scarce. I was able to find a pair of 256 GB RDIMM DDR5 Dell modules at Nemix RAM for $6,335. Doing some quick math, it is safe to assume it’d easily cost several hundred thousand dollars to fully populate Gigabyte’s new board.
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