Cisco UCS C220 M5 vs Dell PowerEdge R640
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco UCS C220 M5 was a 1U 2-socket enterprise rack server powered by 1st and 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors. The Dell PowerEdge R640 is an enterprise 1U rack server powered by 2 Intel Xeon Scalable 1st Gen (Skylake) and 2nd Gen (Cascade Lake) and 24 memory slots supporting up to 3072GB DDR4-2666 / DDR4-2933 RDIMM / LRDIMM.
| Cisco UCS C220 M5 | Dell PowerEdge R640 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Cisco | Dell |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | Jul 2017 | Jul 2017 |
| Form factor | 1U rack | 1U rack |
| Processor | Up to 2x 1st or 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors up to 28 cores each (up to 205W TDP) | — |
| Memory | 24x DDR4 DIMM slots supporting up to 3TB (with Intel Optane Persistent Memory support) | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 10x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe SSDs or 4x 3.5-inch SAS/SATA HDDs, plus dual internal SD/M.2 | Up to 10x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe or 4x 3.5-inch SAS/SATA drives |
| Expansion slots | 2x PCIe 3.0 slots plus 1x dedicated mLOM slot for Cisco VIC adapters | — |
| Network | mLOM slot supporting Cisco VIC 1387 / 1457 (up to 40GbE / 100GbE) plus dual 10GBase-T ports | — |
| Power supply | Dual redundant hot-swap power supplies up to 1050W | Dual redundant hot-plug 495W, 750W, 1100W or 1600W Platinum/Titanium |
| Management | Cisco IMC and Cisco Intersight | — |
| Cpu sockets | — | 2 |
| Cpu platform | — | Intel Xeon Scalable 1st Gen (Skylake) and 2nd Gen (Cascade Lake), up to 28 cores, 205W TDP |
| Memory slots | — | 24 |
| Memory type | — | DDR4-2666 / DDR4-2933 RDIMM / LRDIMM |
| Memory max (GB) | — | 3,072 |
| Pcie slots | — | Up to 3 PCIe Gen3 slots |
| Gpu support | — | Up to 1x 75W single-wide PCIe GPU |
| Network onboard | — | Network Daughter Card (NDC) slot; 1x 1GbE iDRAC9 dedicated port |
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