Dell PowerEdge R720 vs HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The PowerEdge R720 is Dell 12th-generation flagship 2U dual-socket enterprise server powered by Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 processors. The HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9 is the benchmark 2U dual-socket enterprise rack server of its generation, widely deployed across enterprise IT for virtualization, database servers, and ERP workloads.
| Dell PowerEdge R720 | HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | HPE |
| Status | end-of-support | end-of-sale |
| Released | Mar 2012 | Sep 2014 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 2U rack |
| Cpu sockets | 2 | 2 |
| Cpu platform | Intel Xeon E5-2600 and E5-2600 v2 series processors | Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 / v4 series up to 22 cores |
| Memory slots | 24 | 24 |
| Memory type | DDR3 ECC RDIMM/LRDIMM up to 1866 MT/s | DDR4-2133 / DDR4-2400 SmartMemory RDIMM / LRDIMM |
| Drive bays | Up to 16x 2.5in SAS/SATA drives or 8x 3.5in SAS/SATA drives | Up to 24 SFF SAS/SATA or 12 LFF SAS/SATA plus rear drives |
| Pcie slots | Up to 7x PCIe Gen3 slots | Up to 6 PCIe 3.0 expansion slots |
| Power supply | Dual hot-plug redundant PSUs (495W, 750W, 1100W) | HPE 500W, 800W, or 1400W Flex Slot Platinum hot-plug |
| Memory max (GB) | — | 3,072 |
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