Dell PowerEdge R840 vs HPE ProLiant DL560 Gen10
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell PowerEdge R840 is an enterprise 2U rack server powered by 4 Intel Xeon Scalable 1st Gen and 2nd Gen (up to 4 processors, 28 cores each, 205W TDP) and 48 memory slots supporting up to 6144GB DDR4-2666 / DDR4-2933 RDIMM / LRDIMM. The HPE ProLiant DL560 Gen10 is a high-density 2U 4-socket enterprise server designed for business-critical database processing, virtualization consolidation, and large in-memory workloads.
| Dell PowerEdge R840 | HPE ProLiant DL560 Gen10 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | HPE |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | May 2018 | Jul 2017 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 2U rack |
| Cpu sockets | 4 | 4 |
| Cpu platform | Intel Xeon Scalable 1st Gen and 2nd Gen (up to 4 processors, 28 cores each, 205W TDP) | Intel Xeon Scalable 1st Gen (Skylake) and 2nd Gen (Cascade Lake) 4S-capable CPUs |
| Memory slots | 48 | 48 |
| Memory type | DDR4-2666 / DDR4-2933 RDIMM / LRDIMM | DDR4-2666 / DDR4-2933 SmartMemory RDIMM / LRDIMM |
| Memory max (GB) | 6,144 | 6,144 |
| Drive bays | Up to 24x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe drives | Up to 24 SFF SAS/SATA/NVMe drive bays |
| Pcie slots | Up to 6 PCIe Gen3 slots | Up to 8 PCIe 3.0 expansion slots |
| Gpu support | Up to 2x 300W double-wide or 4x 75W single-wide GPUs | Up to 2 single-wide PCIe GPUs |
| Network onboard | Network Daughter Card (NDC) slot; 1x 1GbE iDRAC9 port | FlexibleLOM plus optional PCIe network adapters; dedicated iLO 5 management port |
| Power supply | Dual redundant hot-plug 1100W, 1600W, 2000W or 2400W Platinum | Flex Slot 800W or 1600W hot-plug Platinum redundant power supplies (up to 4 PSUs) |
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