cisco Nexus 9000 Nexus 9364C vs NVIDIA Spectrum-2 SN3700
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco Nexus 9364C is an enterprise 2U fixed datacenter spine switch delivering 64 ports of wire-speed 40G/100G QSFP28. The NVIDIA Spectrum-2 SN3700 is a 1U high-density datacenter spine and leaf switch delivering 32 ports of 100G/200G QSFP56.
| cisco Nexus 9000 Nexus 9364C | NVIDIA Spectrum-2 SN3700 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | cisco | NVIDIA |
| Status | end-of-sale | current |
| Released | Jun 2017 | Sep 2018 |
| Form factor | 2U fixed switch | 1U fixed switch |
| Port configuration | 64x 40G/100G QSFP28 ports | — |
| Switching capacity | 12.8 Tbps non-blocking bandwidth | 12.8 Tbps / 8.33 Bpps wire-speed forwarding performance |
| Forwarding rate | Up to 4.3 Bpps | — |
| Form factor | 2U rack mount | — |
| Operating modes | Cisco ACI Spine or NX-OS IP Fabric Spine | — |
| Cooling power | Hot-swappable redundant power supplies and 3+1 redundant fan modules | — |
| Ports | — | 32x 100G/200G QSFP56 ports (backward compatible with QSFP28) |
| Silicon | — | NVIDIA Spectrum-2 12.8 Tbps ASIC with fully shared 42 MB dynamic packet buffer |
| Latency | — | Sub-425 nanoseconds cut-through latency |
| Cooling and power | — | Dual hot-swappable power supplies and reversible cooling fans |
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