Dell PowerEdge R960 vs Lenovo ThinkSystem SR860 V3
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell PowerEdge R960 is an enterprise 4U 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 Lenovo ThinkSystem SR860 V3 is an enterprise 4U 4-socket server powered by 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors.
| Dell PowerEdge R960 | Lenovo ThinkSystem SR860 V3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | Lenovo |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Apr 2023 | Jan 2023 |
| Form factor | 4U rack | 4U rack |
| Cpu sockets | 4 | — |
| Cpu platform | Intel Xeon Scalable 4th Gen and 5th Gen (up to 4 processors, 350W TDP) | — |
| Memory slots | 64 | — |
| Memory type | DDR5-4800 / DDR5-5600 RDIMM | — |
| Memory max (GB) | 16,384 | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 32x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe drives | Up to 48x 2.5-inch drive bays (supporting up to 24x NVMe Gen5/Gen4 SSDs) plus dual M.2 boot drives |
| Pcie slots | Up to 12 PCIe Gen5 slots | — |
| Gpu support | Up to 4x 350W double-wide GPUs or 8x 75W single-wide GPUs | — |
| Network onboard | OCP 3.0 slot; 1x 1GbE iDRAC dedicated port | — |
| Power supply | Quad redundant hot-plug 1100W, 1400W, 1800W, 2400W or 2800W Titanium | Up to 4x hot-swap 1800W or 2600W Titanium/Platinum power supplies (2+2 redundancy) |
| Processor | — | 2 or 4x 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors up to 60 cores each (up to 350W TDP) |
| Memory | — | 64x DDR5 DIMM slots (16 per CPU) supporting up to 16TB DDR5-4800 ECC RDIMM |
| Expansion slots | — | Up to 16x PCIe slots including 8x PCIe 5.0 slots plus 1x OCP 3.0 mezzanine slot |
| Network | — | OCP 3.0 slot supporting 10/25/100GbE network adapters |
| Management | — | Lenovo XClarity Controller 2 (XCC2) |
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