Cisco UCS C245 M6 vs Dell PowerEdge R7525
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco UCS C245 M6 is a 2U 2-socket enterprise rack server powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors. The Dell PowerEdge R7525 is an enterprise 2U rack server powered by 2 AMD EPYC 7002 and 7003 Series Processors (up to 2x 64 cores, 280W cTDP) and 32 memory slots supporting up to 4096GB DDR4-3200 RDIMM / LRDIMM.
| Cisco UCS C245 M6 | Dell PowerEdge R7525 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Cisco | Dell |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Jun 2021 | Feb 2020 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 2U 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 supporting up to 8TB DDR4-3200 | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 28x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe SSDs or up to 12x 3.5-inch SAS/SATA HDDs, plus dual M.2 | Up to 24x 2.5-inch NVMe/SAS/SATA 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, 2000W or 2400W |
| Management | Cisco IMC and Cisco Intersight | — |
| Cpu sockets | — | 2 |
| Cpu platform | — | AMD EPYC 7002 and 7003 Series Processors (up to 2x 64 cores, 280W cTDP) |
| Memory slots | — | 32 |
| Memory type | — | DDR4-3200 RDIMM / LRDIMM |
| Memory max (GB) | — | 4,096 |
| Pcie slots | — | Up to 8 PCIe Gen4 slots |
| Gpu support | — | Up to 3x 300W double-wide or 6x 75W single-wide GPUs |
| Network onboard | — | 2x 1GbE LOM ports; OCP 3.0 mezzanine; 1x 1GbE iDRAC port |
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