HPE ProLiant DL325 Gen11 vs Lenovo ThinkSystem SR635 V3
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The HPE ProLiant DL325 Gen11 is a dense 1U single-socket rack server engineered for software-defined storage, virtualization, and I/O-intensive workloads where software licensing is billed per socket. The Lenovo ThinkSystem SR635 V3 is an enterprise 1U single-socket server powered by AMD EPYC 9004 Series processors.
| HPE ProLiant DL325 Gen11 | Lenovo ThinkSystem SR635 V3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | HPE | Lenovo |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Nov 2022 | May 2023 |
| Form factor | 1U rack | 1U rack |
| Cpu sockets | 1 | — |
| Cpu platform | AMD EPYC 9004 / 9005 Series Processor (Single Socket) | — |
| Memory slots | 12 | — |
| Memory type | DDR5-4800 / DDR5-5200 / DDR5-6000 SmartMemory RDIMM | — |
| Memory max (GB) | 3,072 | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 10 SFF SAS/SATA/NVMe U.3 or 4 LFF SAS/SATA; 20 EDSFF E3.S option | Up to 12x 2.5-inch or 4x 3.5-inch drive bays; full NVMe Gen5 drive support with E1.S options |
| Pcie slots | Up to 2 PCIe 5.0 expansion slots plus 2 OCP 3.0 slots | — |
| Gpu support | Up to 2 single-wide PCIe accelerators | — |
| Network onboard | Dual OCP 3.0 Gen5 slots; 1Gb dedicated iLO 6 management port | — |
| Power supply | Flex Slot 500W, 800W, or 1000W hot-plug Platinum redundant power supplies | Dual redundant hot-swap 750W, 1100W, or 1800W Titanium/Platinum PSUs |
| Processor | — | Single AMD EPYC 9004 series processor up to 128 cores (up to 360W TDP) |
| Memory | — | 12x DDR5 DIMM slots (1 DPC) supporting up to 1.5TB DDR5-4800 ECC RDIMM |
| Expansion slots | — | Up to 4x PCIe 5.0 slots plus 1x OCP 3.0 slot |
| Network | — | OCP 3.0 mezzanine slot supporting 10/25/100GbE adapters |
| Management | — | Lenovo XClarity Controller 2 (XCC2) |
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