Dell PowerEdge XR8000 vs Lenovo ThinkSystem SE450
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The PowerEdge XR8000 is a modular short-depth 2U edge server chassis engineered for telecom Open RAN, defense, and harsh enterprise edge deployments. The ThinkSystem SE450 is Lenovo's compact 2U single-socket ruggedized edge AI server engineered for complex artificial intelligence inference, computer vision, video analytics, and 5G open-RAN workloads deployed directly at telecom cell…
| Dell PowerEdge XR8000 | Lenovo ThinkSystem SE450 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | Lenovo |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Mar 2023 | Dec 2021 |
| Form factor | modular chassis | 2U rack |
| Chassis size | 2U short-depth (430mm) modular edge enclosure | — |
| Sled slots | Supports up to 4x 1U half-width sleds (XR8610t) or 2x 2U sleds (XR8620t) | — |
| Operating temp | -5C to 55C continuous operating range (NEBS Level 3 compliant) | — |
| Power supply | Dual hot-plug redundant AC or -48V DC power supplies (1100W, 1400W, 1800W) | Dual redundant 1100W / 1800W AC or -48V DC hot-swap power supplies |
| Cpu sockets | — | 1 |
| Cpu platform | — | Single 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor (Ice Lake-SP) up to 36 cores and 205W TDP |
| Memory slots | — | 8 |
| Memory type | — | DDR4-3200 RDIMM / 3DS RDIMM |
| Memory max (GB) | — | 1,024 |
| Drive bays | — | Up to 6x 2.5-inch SFF hot-swap bays supporting NVMe, SAS, or SATA SSDs |
| Pcie slots | — | Up to 4 PCIe 4.0 slots |
| Gpu support | — | Up to 4 single-wide or 2 double-wide 300W GPUs (such as NVIDIA A30, A100, L40) |
| Network onboard | — | Dual OCP 3.0 slots plus dedicated 1GbE XClarity management port |
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