Supermicro Decoder Ring

Mainboard

Intel DP www.supermicro.com/products/Product_Nam...
Intel UP www.supermicro.com/products/Product_Nam...
AMD www.supermicro.com/products/Product_Nam...

Some examples:
Supermicro board names look like:
X11SPW-TF

First letter

  • X = Intel
  • H = AMD

Number = generation of product. parts within a generation are designed to work together, generally won’t across generations due to i/o port layout, etc

Three letter before the dash

  • S = single, D = dual socket
  • P = Xeon Scalable Processor (socket P)
  • W = WIO (3 IO cards in 1U)

letters after the dash

  • F = IPMI support
  • T = 2 10G ports, 4T = 4 10G ports (10GBT copper)
  • i = RAID controller? optane memory?
  • n,N = NVMe support
  • C = SAS controller?
  • L = ?

Chassis

www.supermicro.com/products/Product_Nam...

System 2.5" (includes Twin)

www.supermicro.com/products/Product_Nam...

Riser Cards

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Add-On-Cards, AOC

www.supermicro.com/products/Product_Nam...

Some examples:

Names look like AOC-ATG-i2T

Before dash

  • MTG = SIOM, Super I/O Module
  • ATG= AIOM, Advanced I/O Module
  • CTG = Micro LP
  • PTG = Proprietary 1U card
  • STG = standard low-profile

After dash

  • i2T = 2x 10GBt copper
  • i4T = 4x 10GBt copper
  • i1S = 1x SFP+ (Intel 82599ES)
  • i2S = 2x SFP+ (Intel 82599ES)
  • i4S = 4x SFP+ (Intel)
  • b2T = 2x 10G copper (Broadcom)