Cisco UCS C240 M6 vs Dell PowerEdge R750
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco UCS C240 M6 is a 2U 2-socket enterprise rack server powered by 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors. The Dell PowerEdge R750 is an enterprise 2U rack server powered by 2 Intel Xeon Scalable 3rd Gen (Ice Lake and 32 memory slots supporting up to 8192GB DDR4-3200 RDIMM / LRDIMM.
| Cisco UCS C240 M6 | Dell PowerEdge R750 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Cisco | Dell |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Apr 2021 | May 2021 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 2U rack |
| Processor | Up to 2x 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors up to 40 cores each (up to 270W TDP) | — |
| Memory | 32x DDR4 DIMM slots supporting up to 8TB (including Intel Optane Persistent Memory 200 Series) | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 28x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe SSDs or up to 12x 3.5-inch SAS/SATA HDDs, plus internal M.2 | Up to 24x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe or 12x 3.5-inch SAS/SATA drives |
| Expansion slots | Up to 8x PCIe Gen 4 slots plus dedicated OCP 3.0 slot; supports up to 2x double-wide GPUs | — |
| Network | OCP 3.0 slot and PCIe Cisco VIC adapters supporting 25GbE, 40GbE, and 100GbE | — |
| Power supply | Dual redundant hot-swap power supplies up to 2300W | Dual redundant hot-plug 800W, 1100W, 1400W or 2400W Platinum/Titanium |
| Management | Cisco IMC and Cisco Intersight | — |
| Cpu sockets | — | 2 |
| Cpu platform | — | Intel Xeon Scalable 3rd Gen (Ice Lake, up to 40 cores, 270W TDP) |
| Memory slots | — | 32 |
| Memory type | — | DDR4-3200 RDIMM / LRDIMM |
| Memory max (GB) | — | 8,192 |
| Pcie slots | — | Up to 8 PCIe Gen4 slots |
| Gpu support | — | Up to 2x 300W double-wide or 4x 75W single-wide GPUs |
| Network onboard | — | OCP 3.0 slot; 1x 1GbE iDRAC dedicated port |
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