Dell PowerEdge T550 vs Lenovo ThinkSystem ST650 V2
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell PowerEdge T550 is a flexible 5U tower-to-rack convertible dual-socket server driven by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable (Ice Lake) processors. The ThinkSystem ST650 V2 is Lenovo's high-capacity 4U tower and rack-convertible enterprise server powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake).
| Dell PowerEdge T550 | Lenovo ThinkSystem ST650 V2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | Lenovo |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Jun 2021 | Apr 2021 |
| Form factor | tower | tower |
| Cpu sockets | 2 | 2 |
| Cpu platform | Intel Xeon Scalable 3rd Gen (Ice Lake, up to 36 cores, 220W TDP) | Dual 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake-SP) up to 250W TDP |
| Memory slots | 16 | 32 |
| Memory type | DDR4-3200 RDIMM | DDR4-3200 RDIMM / 3DS RDIMM and Intel Optane Persistent Memory 200 Series |
| Memory max (GB) | 1,024 | 4,096 |
| Drive bays | Up to 24x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe or 8x 3.5-inch SAS/SATA drives | Up to 32x 2.5-inch SFF hot-swap bays (supporting up to 16 NVMe PCIe 4.0 drives) or 16x 3.5-inch LFF bays |
| Pcie slots | Up to 6 PCIe Gen4 slots | Up to 9 PCIe 4.0 slots plus 1 OCP 3.0 slot |
| Gpu support | Up to 2x 300W double-wide or 5x 75W single-wide GPUs | Up to 4 double-wide 300W GPUs or 8 single-wide GPUs |
| Network onboard | 2x 1GbE LOM ports; 1x 1GbE iDRAC9 port | Dual integrated 10GBASE-T ports plus dedicated 1GbE XClarity management port and OCP 3.0 slot |
| Power supply | Dual redundant hot-plug 600W, 800W, 1100W or 1400W Platinum/Titanium | Dual redundant 750W / 1100W / 1800W / 2400W AC 80 PLUS Platinum or Titanium hot-swap PSUs |
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