Dell PowerEdge R940 vs HPE Superdome Flex Superdome Flex
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 Superdome Flex is a modular, scale-up x86 server for mission-critical and in-memory workloads such as SAP HANA and large databases.
| Dell PowerEdge R940 | HPE Superdome Flex Superdome Flex | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | HPE |
| Status | end-of-sale | current |
| Released | Jul 2017 | Nov 2017 |
| Form factor | 3U rack | 5U chassis, 4 sockets each, up to 8 chassis |
| Cpu sockets | 4 | 32 |
| Cpu platform | Intel Xeon Scalable 1st Gen and 2nd Gen (up to 4 processors, 28 cores each, 205W TDP) | Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Gold or Platinum): 4 sockets per 5U chassis, 4 to 32 sockets per system, up to 28 cores per socket |
| Memory slots | 48 | 48 |
| Memory type | DDR4-2666 / DDR4-2933 RDIMM / LRDIMM | HPE DDR4, 48 DIMM slots per chassis; Intel Optane Persistent Memory with 2nd Gen 62XX and 82XX processors |
| Memory max (GB) | 6,144 | 49,152 |
| Drive bays | Up to 24x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe drives (up to 12 NVMe) | 4 drive bays on the base chassis (HDD or SSD), plus a DVD-R/RW bay |
| Pcie slots | Up to 13 PCIe Gen3 slots | Per chassis: 16 half-height PCIe 3.0 slots, or 8 full-height plus 4 half-height slots, or compute-only with no slots on an expansion chassis |
| Gpu support | None supported (use R940xa for GPU) | — |
| Network onboard | Network Daughter Card (NDC) slot; 1x 1GbE iDRAC9 port | 2x 10GbE and 2x 1GbE ports on the base chassis, plus management LAN and rack management ports |
| Power supply | Quad redundant hot-plug 1100W, 1600W, 2000W or 2400W | 4x 1600 W 80 PLUS Titanium power supplies per chassis (optional 2130 W) |
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