Dell PowerEdge R640 vs Lenovo ThinkSystem SR630
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell PowerEdge R640 is an enterprise 1U rack server powered by 2 Intel Xeon Scalable 1st Gen (Skylake) and 2nd Gen (Cascade Lake) and 24 memory slots supporting up to 3072GB DDR4-2666 / DDR4-2933 RDIMM / LRDIMM. The ThinkSystem SR630 was Lenovo's dense 1U two-socket enterprise server for the 1st and 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor family.
| Dell PowerEdge R640 | Lenovo ThinkSystem SR630 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | Lenovo |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | Jul 2017 | Jul 2017 |
| Form factor | 1U rack | 1U rack |
| Cpu sockets | 2 | 2 |
| Cpu platform | Intel Xeon Scalable 1st Gen (Skylake) and 2nd Gen (Cascade Lake), up to 28 cores, 205W TDP | Intel Xeon Scalable 1st Gen (Skylake-SP) and 2nd Gen (Cascade Lake-SP) up to 205W TDP |
| Memory slots | 24 | 24 |
| Memory type | DDR4-2666 / DDR4-2933 RDIMM / LRDIMM | DDR4-2666 / DDR4-2933 RDIMM / LRDIMM |
| Memory max (GB) | 3,072 | 3,072 |
| Drive bays | Up to 10x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe or 4x 3.5-inch SAS/SATA drives | Up to 10x 2.5-inch SFF hot-swap bays (including up to 4 AnyBay NVMe bays) or 4x 3.5-inch LFF bays |
| Pcie slots | Up to 3 PCIe Gen3 slots | Up to 3 PCIe 3.0 slots plus dedicated LOM and internal M.2 boot slots |
| Gpu support | Up to 1x 75W single-wide PCIe GPU | — |
| Network onboard | Network Daughter Card (NDC) slot; 1x 1GbE iDRAC9 dedicated port | LOM slot for 1GbE, 10GbE, or 25GbE plus dedicated 1GbE XClarity management port |
| Power supply | Dual redundant hot-plug 495W, 750W, 1100W or 1600W Platinum/Titanium | Dual redundant 550W / 750W / 1100W AC 80 PLUS Platinum or Titanium PSUs |
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