arista 7050X 7050SX3-48YC8 vs NVIDIA Spectrum SN2010
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Arista 7050SX3-48YC8 is a modern 1U top-of-rack datacenter switch built on the Broadcom Trident 3 switching engine. The NVIDIA Spectrum SN2010 is a half-width 1U top-of-rack Ethernet switch engineered for hyperconverged infrastructure, storage clustering, and space-constrained datacenters.
| arista 7050X 7050SX3-48YC8 | NVIDIA Spectrum SN2010 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | arista | NVIDIA |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Aug 2018 | Jun 2017 |
| Form factor | 1U fixed switch | half-width 1U |
| Downlink ports | 48x 10G/25G SFP28 optical/copper ports | — |
| Uplink ports | 8x 40G/100G QSFP28 ports | — |
| Switching throughput | 4.0 Tbps / 2.0 Bpps forwarding capacity | — |
| Latency | Cut-through switching from 800 nanoseconds | Ultra-low cut-through latency of 300 nanoseconds |
| Packet buffer | 32MB fully shared packet buffer architecture | — |
| Datacenter features | EVPN-VXLAN, RoCEv2, PFC, ECN, and sFlow | — |
| Ports | — | 18x 10G/25G SFP28 and 4x 40G/100G QSFP28 ports |
| Switching capacity | — | 1.7 Tbps / 1.26 Bpps forwarding rate |
| Form factor | — | Half-width 1U short-depth rack enclosure |
| Network os | — | NVIDIA Onyx, Cumulus Linux, or open-source SONiC |
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