Cisco UCS C480 M5 vs Dell PowerEdge R940
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco UCS C480 M5 was a 4U 4-socket enterprise rack server designed for in-memory databases, large-scale SAP HANA, business analytics, and massive virtualization consolidation. The Dell PowerEdge R940 is an enterprise 3U rack server powered by 4 Intel Xeon Scalable 1st Gen and 2nd Gen (up to 4 processors, 28 cores each, 205W TDP) and 48 memory slots supporting up to 6144GB DDR4-2666 / DDR4-2933 RDIMM / LRDIMM.
| Cisco UCS C480 M5 | Dell PowerEdge R940 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Cisco | Dell |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | Jul 2017 | Jul 2017 |
| Form factor | 4U rack | 3U rack |
| Processor | Up to 4x 1st or 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors up to 28 cores each (up to 205W TDP) | — |
| Memory | 48x DDR4 DIMM slots supporting up to 6TB (with Intel Optane Persistent Memory support) | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 32x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe SSDs in front-accessible drive modules | Up to 24x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe drives (up to 12 NVMe) |
| Expansion slots | Up to 12x PCIe 3.0 slots plus dedicated mLOM slot; supports up to 6x full-height double-wide GPUs | — |
| Network | mLOM slot for Cisco VIC adapters plus PCIe network interface cards | — |
| Power supply | Up to 4x redundant hot-swap power supplies up to 1600W | Quad redundant hot-plug 1100W, 1600W, 2000W or 2400W |
| Management | Cisco IMC and Cisco Intersight | — |
| Cpu sockets | — | 4 |
| Cpu platform | — | Intel Xeon Scalable 1st Gen and 2nd Gen (up to 4 processors, 28 cores each, 205W TDP) |
| Memory slots | — | 48 |
| Memory type | — | DDR4-2666 / DDR4-2933 RDIMM / LRDIMM |
| Memory max (GB) | — | 6,144 |
| Pcie slots | — | Up to 13 PCIe Gen3 slots |
| Gpu support | — | None supported (use R940xa for GPU) |
| Network onboard | — | Network Daughter Card (NDC) slot; 1x 1GbE iDRAC9 port |
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