Cisco UCS C225 M6 vs Dell PowerEdge R6515
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco UCS C225 M6 is a 1U 2-socket rack server powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors. The Dell PowerEdge R6515 is an enterprise 1U rack server powered by 1 AMD EPYC 7002 and 7003 Series Processors (up to 64 cores, 280W cTDP) and 16 memory slots supporting up to 2048GB DDR4-3200 RDIMM / LRDIMM.
| Cisco UCS C225 M6 | Dell PowerEdge R6515 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Cisco | Dell |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Jun 2021 | Sep 2019 |
| Form factor | 1U rack | 1U rack |
| Processor | Up to 2x 3rd Gen AMD EPYC 7003 series processors up to 64 cores each (up to 280W TDP) | — |
| Memory | 32x DDR4 DIMM slots (16 per CPU) supporting up to 8TB DDR4-3200 | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 10x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe SSDs, plus dual internal M.2 boot drives | Up to 10x 2.5-inch NVMe/SAS/SATA or 4x 3.5-inch SAS/SATA drives |
| Expansion slots | Up to 3x PCIe Gen 4 slots plus 1x dedicated OCP 3.0 slot | — |
| Network | OCP 3.0 slot supporting up to 100GbE and Cisco VIC 1467 PCIe mezzanine adapters | — |
| Power supply | Dual redundant hot-swap power supplies up to 1600W | Dual redundant hot-plug 550W, 800W, 1100W or 1400W |
| Management | Cisco IMC and Cisco Intersight | — |
| Cpu sockets | — | 1 |
| Cpu platform | — | AMD EPYC 7002 and 7003 Series Processors (up to 64 cores, 280W cTDP) |
| Memory slots | — | 16 |
| Memory type | — | DDR4-3200 RDIMM / LRDIMM |
| Memory max (GB) | — | 2,048 |
| Pcie slots | — | Up to 2 PCIe Gen4 slots |
| Gpu support | — | Up to 2x 75W single-wide PCIe GPUs |
| Network onboard | — | 2x 1GbE LOM ports; OCP 2.0 / 3.0 mezzanine; 1x 1GbE iDRAC port |
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