Dell PowerEdge R860 vs Lenovo ThinkSystem SR850 V3
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell PowerEdge R860 is an enterprise 2U rack server powered by 4 Intel Xeon Scalable 4th Gen and 5th Gen (up to 4 processors, 350W TDP) and 64 memory slots supporting up to 16384GB DDR5-4800 / DDR5-5600 RDIMM. The ThinkSystem SR850 V3 is Lenovo's premier high-density 2U four-socket enterprise server engineered for 4th and 5th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids and Emerald Rapids).
| Dell PowerEdge R860 | Lenovo ThinkSystem SR850 V3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | Lenovo |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Apr 2023 | Jan 2023 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 2U rack |
| Cpu sockets | 4 | 4 |
| Cpu platform | Intel Xeon Scalable 4th Gen and 5th Gen (up to 4 processors, 350W TDP) | Up to 4 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids) or 5th Gen (Emerald Rapids) processors up to 60 cores per socket and 350W TDP |
| Memory slots | 64 | 64 |
| Memory type | DDR5-4800 / DDR5-5600 RDIMM | DDR5-4800 / DDR5-5600 RDIMM / 3DS RDIMM |
| Memory max (GB) | 16,384 | 16,384 |
| Drive bays | Up to 24x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe drives | Up to 24x 2.5-inch SFF hot-swap bays (supporting up to 24 NVMe PCIe Gen5 SSDs) or up to 24x EDSFF E3.S bays |
| Pcie slots | Up to 8 PCIe Gen5 slots | Up to 12 PCIe Gen5 slots plus 2 OCP 3.0 slots |
| Gpu support | Up to 2x double-width 300W or 4x single-width 75W GPUs | — |
| Network onboard | OCP 3.0 slot; 1x 1GbE iDRAC dedicated port | Dual OCP 3.0 slots plus dedicated 1GbE XClarity management port |
| Power supply | Dual redundant hot-plug 1100W, 1400W, 1800W, 2400W or 2800W Titanium | Dual redundant 1800W / 2400W / 2600W AC 80 PLUS Titanium or Platinum PSUs |
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