Dell PowerEdge R730 vs Lenovo System x3650 M5
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell PowerEdge R730 is an enterprise 2U rack server powered by 2 Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 and E5-2600 v4 Series Processors (up to 22 cores per socket, 145W TDP) and 24 memory slots supporting up to 3072GB DDR4-2133 / DDR4-2400 RDIMM /… The Lenovo System x3650 M5 (machine type 8871) is a 2U, two socket rack server built on the Intel Xeon E5-2600 v4 family, with E5-2600 v3 processors on CTO builds.
| Dell PowerEdge R730 | Lenovo System x3650 M5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | Lenovo |
| Status | end-of-support | end-of-sale |
| Released | Sep 2014 | — |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 2U rack |
| Cpu sockets | 2 | 2 |
| Cpu platform | Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 and E5-2600 v4 Series Processors (up to 22 cores per socket, 145W TDP) | Intel Xeon E5-2600 v4 (E5-2600 v3 on CTO only) |
| Memory slots | 24 | 24 |
| Memory type | DDR4-2133 / DDR4-2400 RDIMM / LRDIMM | TruDDR4 RDIMM and LRDIMM, up to 2400 MHz |
| Memory max (GB) | 3,072 | 1,536 |
| Drive bays | Up to 16x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA or 8x 3.5-inch SAS/SATA drives | Up to 28 SFF or 16 LFF+SFF hot-swap, with optional NVMe bays |
| Pcie slots | Up to 7 PCIe Gen3 slots | — |
| Gpu support | Up to 2x 300W double-wide or 4x 150W single-wide GPUs | — |
| Network onboard | Network Daughter Card (NDC) slot with 4x 1GbE or 2x 10GbE + 2x 1GbE; 1x 1GbE iDRAC8 dedicated port | — |
| Power supply | Dual redundant hot-plug 495W, 750W or 1100W Platinum/Titanium | — |
| Chipset | — | Intel C612 |
| Storage controller | — | ServeRAID M1215, M5210 or N2215 HBA |
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