Dell PowerEdge R740 vs Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell PowerEdge R740 is an enterprise 2U 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 SR650 was Lenovo's core two-socket 2U rack server for 1st and 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors.
| Dell PowerEdge R740 | Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | Lenovo |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | Jul 2017 | Jul 2017 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 2U 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) |
| 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 16x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA or 8x 3.5-inch SAS/SATA drives | Up to 24x 2.5-inch SFF or 14x 3.5-inch LFF hot-swap bays; up to 8 AnyBay NVMe bays |
| Pcie slots | Up to 8 PCIe Gen3 slots | Up to 7 PCIe 3.0 slots plus dedicated LOM and internal storage slots |
| Gpu support | Up to 3x 300W double-wide or 6x 150W single-wide GPUs | Up to 2 double-wide 300W GPUs or 4 single-wide GPUs |
| Network onboard | Network Daughter Card (NDC) slot with 4x 1GbE, 2x 10GbE + 2x 1GbE, or 4x 10GbE options; 1x 1GbE iDRAC9 dedicated port | Modular LOM adapter slot (1GbE or 10GbE) plus dedicated 1GbE XClarity management port |
| Power supply | Dual redundant hot-plug 495W, 750W, 1100W, 1600W, 2000W or 2400W Platinum/Titanium | Dual redundant 550W / 750W / 1100W / 1600W AC 80 PLUS Platinum or Titanium PSUs |
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