Dell PowerEdge R940 vs HPE ProLiant DL580 Gen10
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell PowerEdge R940 is an enterprise 3U 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 DL580 Gen10 is an expandable 4U four-socket enterprise server designed for heavy mission-critical processing, large database management, in-memory analytics, and multi-tenant virtualization.
| Dell PowerEdge R940 | HPE ProLiant DL580 Gen10 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | HPE |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | Jul 2017 | Jul 2017 |
| Form factor | 3U rack | 4U 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/8S 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 12 NVMe) | Up to 48 SFF SAS/SATA/NVMe drive bays |
| Pcie slots | Up to 13 PCIe Gen3 slots | Up to 16 PCIe 3.0 expansion slots |
| Gpu support | None supported (use R940xa for GPU) | Up to 4 double-wide or 8 single-wide PCIe graphics cards |
| Network onboard | Network Daughter Card (NDC) slot; 1x 1GbE iDRAC9 port | FlexibleLOM plus extensive PCIe networking options; dedicated iLO 5 management port |
| Power supply | Quad redundant hot-plug 1100W, 1600W, 2000W or 2400W | Flex Slot 800W or 1600W hot-plug Platinum redundant power supplies (up to 4 PSUs) |
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