Cisco UCS C240 M7 vs Dell PowerEdge R760
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco UCS C240 M7 is a 2U 2-socket enterprise rack server designed for storage-intensive workloads, virtualization clusters, big data analytics, and AI/ML acceleration. The Dell PowerEdge R760 is an enterprise 2U rack server powered by 2 Intel Xeon Scalable 4th Gen (Sapphire Rapids) and 5th Gen (Emerald Rapids) and 32 memory slots supporting up to 8192GB DDR5-4800 / DDR5-5600 RDIMM.
| Cisco UCS C240 M7 | Dell PowerEdge R760 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Cisco | Dell |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Jan 2023 | Feb 2023 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 2U rack |
| Processor | Up to 2x 4th or 5th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors up to 64 cores each (up to 350W TDP) | — |
| Memory | 32x DDR5 DIMM slots supporting up to 8TB DDR5-5600 | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 28x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe SSDs, or up to 12x 3.5-inch SAS/SATA drives, plus internal M.2 | Up to 24x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe, 12x 3.5-inch SAS/SATA, or 16x E3.S NVMe |
| Expansion slots | Up to 8x PCIe Gen 5 expansion 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, 100GbE, and 200GbE | — |
| Power supply | Dual redundant hot-swap power supplies up to 2300W | Dual redundant hot-plug 700W, 800W, 1100W, 1400W, 1800W, 2400W or 2800W Titanium/Platinum |
| Management | Cisco IMC and Cisco Intersight | — |
| Cpu sockets | — | 2 |
| Cpu platform | — | Intel Xeon Scalable 4th Gen (Sapphire Rapids) and 5th Gen (Emerald Rapids) |
| Memory slots | — | 32 |
| Memory type | — | DDR5-4800 / DDR5-5600 RDIMM |
| Memory max (GB) | — | 8,192 |
| Pcie slots | — | Up to 8 PCIe Gen5 slots |
| Gpu support | — | Up to 2x 350W double-wide or 6x 75W single-wide GPUs |
| Network onboard | — | OCP 3.0 mezzanine slot; dedicated 1GbE iDRAC9 Direct port |
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