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Dell Technologies: Balancing CPU and GPU for the Agentic AI Era

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Agentic AI changes the infrastructure equation. These workloads plan, branch, call tools, retrieve data, manage long context, and re-plan in real time, creating far greater CPU demand than traditional GPU-heavy inference. In this Meet the Expert session, learn why balanced Dell PowerEdge platforms with 1:1 vs. 1:8 AMD EPYC CPUs and AMD Instinct MI350P GPUs are critical to improving latency, GPU utilization, and efficiency for production-ready agentic AI.

July 22, 2026 3:00 PM - 3:55 PM PDT

Séamus Jones
Séamus Jones

Director of Technical Marketing Engineering | Dell Technologies 

Topic

AI Training & Inference

Agentic & Generative AI

Session Type

Meet the Experts

Related Product

EPYC, Instinct

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