Dell PowerEdge R840 vs IBM Power System S924
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 IBM Power System S924 is a 4U dual-socket enterprise server powered by IBM POWER9 processors.
| Dell PowerEdge R840 | IBM Power System S924 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | IBM |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | May 2018 | Feb 2018 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 4U rack |
| 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 | 32 |
| 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 | Up to 18x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe |
| 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 | — |
| Form factor | — | 4U rack |
| Sockets | — | 2 |
| Processor family | — | IBM POWER9 |
| Max memory | — | 4TB DDR4-2666 |
| Power supplies | — | 2x 1400W Redundant Platinum |
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