Dell PowerEdge R740xd vs HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell PowerEdge R740xd 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 HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 is one of the most widely deployed 2U dual-socket enterprise rack servers globally.
| Dell PowerEdge R740xd | HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | HPE |
| 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) and 2nd Gen (Cascade Lake) |
| Memory slots | 24 | 24 |
| Memory type | DDR4-2666 / DDR4-2933 RDIMM / LRDIMM | DDR4-2666 / DDR4-2933 SmartMemory RDIMM / LRDIMM |
| Memory max (GB) | 3,072 | 3,072 |
| Drive bays | Up to 32x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe (24 front, 4 mid, 4 rear) or 18x 3.5-inch (12 front, 4 mid, 2 rear) | Up to 24 SFF SAS/SATA, 12 LFF SAS/SATA, or up to 20 NVMe PCIe SSDs |
| Pcie slots | Up to 8 PCIe Gen3 slots | Up to 8 PCIe 3.0 expansion slots via primary and secondary risers |
| Gpu support | Up to 3x 300W double-wide or 6x 150W single-wide GPUs | Up to 3 double-width or 5 single-width full-length GPUs |
| Network onboard | Network Daughter Card (NDC) slot; 1x 1GbE iDRAC9 dedicated port | Embedded 4x 1GbE 331i network adapter plus FlexibleLOM slot |
| Power supply | Dual redundant hot-plug 750W, 1100W, 1600W, 2000W or 2400W Platinum/Titanium | HPE 500W, 800W, or 1600W Flex Slot Platinum hot-plug power supplies |
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