Cisco UCS C240 M6 vs Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650 V2
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 ThinkSystem SR650 V2 is Lenovo's mainstream two-socket 2U rack server powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable (Ice Lake) processors.
| Cisco UCS C240 M6 | Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650 V2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Cisco | Lenovo |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Apr 2021 | Apr 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 40x 2.5-inch SFF or 20x 3.5-inch LFF hot-swap bays; up to 32x NVMe PCIe 4.0 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 750W / 1100W / 1800W / 2400W AC 80 PLUS Platinum or Titanium PSUs |
| Management | Cisco IMC and Cisco Intersight | — |
| Cpu sockets | — | 2 |
| Cpu platform | — | 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake-SP) up to 270W TDP |
| Memory slots | — | 32 |
| Memory type | — | DDR4-3200 RDIMM / 3DS RDIMM and Intel Optane Persistent Memory 200 Series |
| Memory max (GB) | — | 8,192 |
| Pcie slots | — | Up to 8 PCIe 4.0 slots plus 1 OCP 3.0 SFF slot and internal storage adapter slot |
| Gpu support | — | Up to 3 double-wide 300W GPUs or 8 single-wide 75W GPUs |
| Network onboard | — | OCP 3.0 slot (1GbE/10GbE/25GbE) plus dedicated 1GbE XClarity management port |
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