Dell PowerEdge XE8545 vs Lenovo ThinkSystem SR670 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 ThinkSystem SR670 V2 is Lenovo's modular 3U two-socket high-density GPU server engineered for artificial intelligence, machine learning deep training, high-performance computing (HPC), and graphical rendering clusters.
| Dell PowerEdge XE8545 | Lenovo ThinkSystem SR670 V2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | Lenovo |
| Status | current | end-of-sale |
| Released | Apr 2021 | Apr 2021 |
| Form factor | 4U rack | 3U rack |
| Cpu sockets | 2 | 2 |
| Cpu platform | AMD EPYC 7002 and 7003 Series Processors (up to 2x 64 cores, 280W cTDP) | Dual 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake-SP) up to 270W TDP |
| Memory slots | 32 | 32 |
| Memory type | DDR4-3200 RDIMM / LRDIMM | DDR4-3200 RDIMM / 3DS RDIMM |
| Memory max (GB) | 4,096 | 4,096 |
| Drive bays | Up to 8x 2.5-inch NVMe direct-attach SSDs | Up to 8x 2.5-inch SFF hot-swap SAS/SATA/NVMe drive bays |
| Pcie slots | Up to 4 PCIe Gen4 slots | Up to 8 PCIe 4.0 x16 slots for GPUs plus 4 PCIe 4.0 x16 slots for high-speed NICs/InfiniBand |
| Gpu support | 4x NVIDIA A100 SXM4 GPUs with NVLink (400W or 500W each, 40GB or 80GB) | Up to 8 double-wide PCIe GPUs (such as NVIDIA A100/A40) or 4-way NVIDIA HGX A100 NVLink baseboard with Lenovo Neptune hybrid liquid cooling |
| Network onboard | OCP 3.0 mezzanine slot; 1x 1GbE iDRAC9 port | Dual OCP 3.0 slots plus dedicated 1GbE XClarity management port |
| Power supply | Quad hot-plug 2400W Platinum power supplies (2+2) | Up to 4 redundant 1800W / 2400W AC 80 PLUS Platinum hot-swap power supplies |
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