Dell PowerEdge XE9680 vs Lenovo ThinkSystem SR685a 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 SR685a V3 is an 8U accelerated AI supercomputing node powered by dual AMD EPYC 9004 Series processors and an 8-way NVIDIA HGX H100/H200 or AMD Instinct MI300X baseboard.
| Dell PowerEdge XE9680 | Lenovo ThinkSystem SR685a V3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | Lenovo |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Mar 2023 | Mar 2024 |
| Form factor | 6U rack | 8U rack |
| 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 16x 2.5-inch hot-swap NVMe SSD bays (PCIe 5.0) plus dual M.2 boot storage |
| 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 | 8-way NVIDIA HGX H100/H200 SXM5 or 8-way AMD Instinct MI300X OAM baseboard |
| 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) | Up to 8x hot-swap 3000W Titanium power supplies (N+N redundancy) |
| Processor | — | Up to 2x AMD EPYC 9004 series processors up to 128 cores each (up to 400W TDP) |
| Memory | — | 24x DDR5 DIMM slots (12 per CPU) supporting up to 3TB DDR5-4800 ECC RDIMM |
| Network | — | 8x dedicated PCIe 5.0 x16 slots for 400Gb/s NDR InfiniBand or 400GbE adapters |
| Management | — | Lenovo XClarity Controller 2 (XCC2) |
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