Dell PowerEdge R840 vs HPE Synergy 660 Gen10 Plus Compute Module
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 Synergy 660 Gen10 Plus Compute Module is a 4-socket full-height blade module powered by 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors for the Synergy 12000 Frame.
| Dell PowerEdge R840 | HPE Synergy 660 Gen10 Plus Compute Module | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | HPE |
| Status | end-of-sale | current |
| Released | May 2018 | Nov 2020 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | Full-height blade |
| Cpu sockets | 4 | — |
| Cpu platform | Intel Xeon Scalable 1st Gen and 2nd Gen (up to 4 processors, 28 cores each, 205W TDP) | — |
| Memory slots | 48 | — |
| Memory type | DDR4-2666 / DDR4-2933 RDIMM / LRDIMM | — |
| Memory max (GB) | 6,144 | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 24x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe drives | — |
| Pcie slots | Up to 6 PCIe Gen3 slots | — |
| Gpu support | Up to 2x 300W double-wide or 4x 75W single-wide GPUs | — |
| Network onboard | Network Daughter Card (NDC) slot; 1x 1GbE iDRAC9 port | — |
| Power supply | Dual redundant hot-plug 1100W, 1600W, 2000W or 2400W Platinum | — |
| Processor | — | Up to 4 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors up to 28 cores each |
| Memory | — | 48 DDR4 DIMM slots up to 6TB DDR4-3200 MT/s Registered SmartMemory |
| Mezzanine slots | — | 6 Synergy Mezzanine slots supporting 25/50GbE and 32Gb Fibre Channel |
| Storage | — | Up to 4 SFF SAS/SATA/NVMe drives with optional Smart Array RAID |
| Management | — | HPE Synergy Composer powered by HPE OneView |
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