Dell PowerEdge XE9680 vs Lenovo ThinkSystem SD650-I V3
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell PowerEdge XE9680 is an enterprise 6U rack server powered by 2 Intel Xeon Scalable 4th Gen and 5th Gen (up to 2x 64 cores, 350W TDP) and 32 memory slots supporting up to 4096GB DDR5-4800 / DDR5-5600 RDIMM. The Lenovo ThinkSystem SD650-I V3 is a direct water-cooled supercomputing tray powered by dual 4th or 5th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors and four Intel Data Center GPU Max 1550 (Ponte Vecchio) accelerators.
| Dell PowerEdge XE9680 | Lenovo ThinkSystem SD650-I V3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | Lenovo |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Mar 2023 | May 2023 |
| Form factor | 6U rack | dense node |
| Cpu sockets | 2 | — |
| Cpu platform | Intel Xeon Scalable 4th Gen and 5th Gen (up to 2x 64 cores, 350W TDP) | — |
| Memory slots | 32 | — |
| Memory type | DDR5-4800 / DDR5-5600 RDIMM | — |
| Memory max (GB) | 4,096 | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 16x 2.5-inch NVMe U.2 / U.3 or E3.S SSDs | Up to 2x 2.5-inch 7mm NVMe SSDs plus dual M.2 boot drives |
| Pcie slots | Up to 10 PCIe Gen5 slots (dedicated for InfiniBand / RoCE networking) | — |
| Gpu support | 8x NVIDIA H100 / H200 / B200 SXM5 GPUs with NVLink (700W each) or 8x AMD Instinct MI300X OAM | 4x Intel Data Center GPU Max 1550 OAM accelerators (up to 600W each) with Intel Xe Link |
| Network onboard | Up to 8x 400Gb/s QSFP-DD PCIe NICs plus dedicated 1GbE iDRAC9 port | — |
| Power supply | Six hot-plug 2800W or 3000W Titanium redundant power supplies (3+3) | Shared busbar power from the ThinkSystem DW612 Enclosure |
| Processor | — | Up to 2x 4th or 5th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors up to 64 cores each (up to 350W TDP) |
| Memory | — | 16x DDR5 DIMM slots supporting up to 2TB DDR5-5600 ECC RDIMM |
| Expansion slots | — | 4x PCIe 5.0 x16 slots dedicated to 400Gb/s NDR InfiniBand or Omni-Path fabric adapters |
| Network | — | Direct PCIe 5.0 connections to 400Gb/s network adapters |
| Management | — | Lenovo XClarity Controller 2 (XCC2) |
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