Dell PowerEdge R650 vs Lenovo ThinkSystem SR630 V2
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell PowerEdge R650 is an enterprise 1U rack server powered by 2 Intel Xeon Scalable 3rd Gen (Ice Lake and 32 memory slots supporting up to 8192GB DDR4-3200 RDIMM / LRDIMM. The ThinkSystem SR630 V2 is Lenovo's dense 1U two-socket enterprise server powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake).
| Dell PowerEdge R650 | Lenovo ThinkSystem SR630 V2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | Lenovo |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | May 2021 | Apr 2021 |
| Form factor | 1U rack | 1U rack |
| Cpu sockets | 2 | 2 |
| Cpu platform | Intel Xeon Scalable 3rd Gen (Ice Lake, up to 40 cores, 270W TDP) | 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake-SP) up to 270W TDP |
| Memory slots | 32 | 32 |
| Memory type | DDR4-3200 RDIMM / LRDIMM | DDR4-3200 RDIMM / 3DS RDIMM and Intel Optane Persistent Memory 200 Series |
| Memory max (GB) | 8,192 | 8,192 |
| Drive bays | Up to 10x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe or 4x 3.5-inch SAS/SATA drives | Up to 12x 2.5-inch SFF hot-swap bays (including up to 12 NVMe PCIe 4.0 drives) or 4x 3.5-inch LFF bays |
| Pcie slots | Up to 3 PCIe Gen4 slots | Up to 3 PCIe 4.0 slots plus 1 OCP 3.0 slot and internal storage slot |
| Gpu support | Up to 3x 75W single-wide PCIe GPUs | — |
| Network onboard | OCP 3.0 slot; 1x 1GbE iDRAC dedicated port | OCP 3.0 slot (1GbE/10GbE/25GbE) plus dedicated 1GbE XClarity management port |
| Power supply | Dual redundant hot-plug 800W, 1100W or 1400W Platinum/Titanium | Dual redundant 750W / 1100W / 1800W AC 80 PLUS Platinum or Titanium PSUs |
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