Dell PowerEdge XE8545 vs Lenovo ThinkSystem SD650-N V2
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 Lenovo ThinkSystem SD650-N V2 is a direct water-cooled GPU compute tray that combines dual 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors with four NVIDIA HGX A100 SXM4 GPUs.
| Dell PowerEdge XE8545 | Lenovo ThinkSystem SD650-N V2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | Lenovo |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Apr 2021 | Nov 2020 |
| Form factor | 4U rack | dense node |
| Cpu sockets | 2 | — |
| Cpu platform | AMD EPYC 7002 and 7003 Series Processors (up to 2x 64 cores, 280W cTDP) | — |
| Memory slots | 32 | — |
| Memory type | DDR4-3200 RDIMM / LRDIMM | — |
| Memory max (GB) | 4,096 | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 8x 2.5-inch NVMe direct-attach SSDs | Up to 2x 2.5-inch 7mm NVMe SSDs plus dual M.2 boot support |
| Pcie slots | Up to 4 PCIe Gen4 slots | — |
| Gpu support | 4x NVIDIA A100 SXM4 GPUs with NVLink (400W or 500W each, 40GB or 80GB) | 4-way NVIDIA HGX A100 (40GB or 80GB) SXM4 interconnected via 600 GB/s NVLink |
| Network onboard | OCP 3.0 mezzanine slot; 1x 1GbE iDRAC9 port | — |
| Power supply | Quad hot-plug 2400W Platinum power supplies (2+2) | Shared busbar DC power from the DW612 Enclosure |
| Processor | — | Up to 2x 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors up to 40 cores each (up to 250W TDP) |
| Memory | — | 16x DDR4 DIMM slots supporting up to 1TB DDR4-3200 ECC RDIMM |
| Expansion slots | — | Up to 4x PCIe 4.0 x16 slots dedicated to 200Gb/s HDR InfiniBand cards |
| Network | — | Direct PCIe 4.0 InfiniBand connections for 1:1 GPU-to-HCA fabric topology |
| Management | — | Lenovo XClarity Controller (XCC) |
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