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While reliable, high-performance servers are crucial to business growth and happy end users, there is another important piece in the performance puzzle: energy efficiency. In our tests, the Dell EMC PowerEdge R650xs consumed 652 watts total and the Dell EMC PowerEdge R640 consumed 459 watts total. On the surface, it may appear that the older server was more energy-efficient than the new XS server. However, because the PowerEdge R650xs supported so many more VDI sessions per server, it actually consumed fewer watts per VDI session.
This power efficiency can translate to fewer data center power and cooling surprises as your business grows and VDI sessions increase. To read more about our calculations and results, see the science behind this report.