Cisco UCS C245 M8 vs Lenovo ThinkSystem SR665 V3
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco UCS C245 M8 is a 2U 2-socket enterprise rack server powered by 4th and 5th Gen AMD EPYC 9004 and 9005 series processors. The ThinkSystem SR665 V3 is Lenovo's premier high-density dual-socket 2U AMD server, powered by AMD EPYC 9004 and 9005 Series processors with up to 160 cores per socket.
| Cisco UCS C245 M8 | Lenovo ThinkSystem SR665 V3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Cisco | Lenovo |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Oct 2024 | Nov 2022 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 2U rack |
| Processor | Up to 2x AMD EPYC 9004 or 9005 series processors up to 128 cores each (up to 400W TDP) | — |
| Memory | 24x DDR5 DIMM slots supporting up to 6TB DDR5-6000 | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 28x 2.5-inch NVMe/SAS SSDs or up to 12x 3.5-inch SAS/SATA HDDs, plus dual M.2 | Up to 40x 2.5-inch SFF, 20x 3.5-inch LFF, or up to 32x NVMe PCIe Gen5 SSDs; EDSFF E3.S options |
| Expansion slots | Up to 8x PCIe Gen 5 slots plus dedicated OCP 3.0 slot; supports up to 4x double-wide GPUs | — |
| Network | OCP 3.0 slot and PCIe Cisco VIC adapters supporting 100GbE / 200GbE | — |
| Power supply | Dual redundant hot-swap power supplies up to 2400W | Dual redundant 750W / 1100W / 1800W / 2400W / 2600W AC 80 PLUS Titanium or Platinum PSUs |
| Management | Cisco IMC and Cisco Intersight | — |
| Cpu sockets | — | 2 |
| Cpu platform | — | Dual AMD EPYC 9004 Series (Genoa/Bergamo) and 9005 Series (Turin) processors up to 400W TDP |
| Memory slots | — | 24 |
| Memory type | — | DDR5-4800 / DDR5-5200 / DDR5-6000 RDIMM / 3DS RDIMM |
| Memory max (GB) | — | 6,144 |
| Pcie slots | — | Up to 12 PCIe Gen5 slots plus 2 OCP 3.0 slots |
| Gpu support | — | Up to 3 double-wide 350W GPUs or 8 single-wide GPUs |
| Network onboard | — | Dual OCP 3.0 Gen5 slots plus dedicated 1GbE XClarity management port |
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