Dell PowerEdge XE8545 vs HPE ProLiant XL675d Gen10 Plus
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell PowerEdge XE8545 is an enterprise 4U rack server powered by 2 AMD EPYC 7002 and 7003 Series Processors (up to 2x 64 cores, 280W cTDP) and 32 memory slots supporting up to 4096GB DDR4-3200 RDIMM / LRDIMM. The HPE ProLiant XL675d Gen10 Plus is the dual-processor GPU node of the Apollo 6500 Gen10 Plus system, a 6U chassis built for AI training and HPC.
| Dell PowerEdge XE8545 | HPE ProLiant XL675d Gen10 Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | HPE |
| Status | current | end-of-sale |
| Released | Apr 2021 | — |
| Form factor | 4U rack | 6U chassis (HPE Apollo d6500 Gen10 Plus), one XL675d per chassis |
| Cpu sockets | 2 | 2 |
| Cpu platform | AMD EPYC 7002 and 7003 Series Processors (up to 2x 64 cores, 280W cTDP) | Two AMD EPYC 7002 or 7003 Series processors, up to 280 W each |
| Memory slots | 32 | 32 |
| Memory type | DDR4-3200 RDIMM / LRDIMM | HPE DDR4-3200 Smart Memory RDIMM / LRDIMM (2933 MT/s with 2 DIMMs per channel) |
| Memory max (GB) | 4,096 | 4,096 |
| Drive bays | Up to 8x 2.5-inch NVMe direct-attach SSDs | Up to 16 SFF SAS, SATA or NVMe drives (M.2 optional) |
| Pcie slots | Up to 4 PCIe Gen4 slots | 6 PCIe 4.0 x16 fabric slots (slots 17 to 22: four half-height half-length, two full-height full-length) plus GPU riser slots |
| Gpu support | 4x NVIDIA A100 SXM4 GPUs with NVLink (400W or 500W each, 40GB or 80GB) | NVIDIA HGX A100 8-GPU (SXM4), AMD Instinct MI100 with Infinity Fabric Link, or up to 10 double-wide or 16 single-wide PCIe GPUs |
| Network onboard | OCP 3.0 mezzanine slot; 1x 1GbE iDRAC9 port | Dedicated iLO port; a NIC is installed in slot 21 or 22 by default; up to six high speed fabric interconnects (Ethernet, InfiniBand or HPE Slingshot) |
| Power supply | Quad hot-plug 2400W Platinum power supplies (2+2) | Up to 6x 3000 W Platinum hot-plug power supplies per chassis, fully redundant |
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