Cisco Catalyst 9000 Switches Comparison: 9200 vs 9300 vs 9400 vs 9500

Series 9200 9200L 9300 9300L 9400 9500

Catalyst 3850 10G

Catalyst 4500 Models
Catalyst 2960X Catalyst 2960X
Designed to replace Catalyst 3850 Catalyst 3850 Catalyst 6500 (Catalyst 9500 is a New
Catalyst 2960XR Catalyst 2960XR
Catalyst 6800 Series with more
powerful functions.)
Network Advantage, Network Advantage, Network Advantage, Network Advantage, Network Advantage, Network Advantage,
Supported IOS
Network Essentials Network Essentials Network Essentials Network Essentials Network Essentials Network Essentials
C9300-NM-4G
Catalyst 9400 switches
C9300-NM-8X
Network modules C9200-NM-4G are modular switches C9500-NM-8X
Fixed Modules C9300-NM-2Q Fixed Modules
options C9200-NM-4X that need to order C9500-NM-2Q
C9300-NM-4M
modules and cards.
C9300-NM-2Y
Stack Technology StackWise®-160 StackWise-80 StackWise®-480 StackWise-320 StackWise® Virtual StackWise® Virtual
Stacking bandwidth 160 Gbps 80 Gbps 480 Gbps 320 Gbps - -
Total number of MAC
32,000 16,000 32,000 32,000 Up to 82,000
addresses
32,000 (24,000
Total number of IPv4 14,000 (10,000 direct 11,000 (8,000 direct 32,000 (24,000 direct Up to 212,000 indirect
direct routes and
routes (ARP plus routes and 4,000 routes and 3,000 routes and 8000 indirect + direct
8000 indirect Please view its
learned routes) indirect routes) indirect routes) routes) Up to 90,000 host/ARP
routes) datasheet to learn
IPv4 routing entries 4,000 3,000 - - details: -
Cisco Catalyst 9400 Up to 212,000 indirect
IPv6 routing entries 2,000 1,500 16,000 16,000 Switch Datasheet.pdf + direct
Up to 90,000 host
Multicast routing scale 1,000 1,000 8,000 8,000 Up to 32,000
QoS scale entries 1,000 1,000 5,120 5,120 Up to 18000
ACL scale entries 1,600 1,500 5,120 5,120 Up to 27000
 16 MB buffer for 24- or
6 MB buffers for 24- or 6 MB buffers for 24- or 48-port Gigabit Ethernet 16 MB buffer for 24
Packet buffer per SKU 48-port Gigabit 48-port Gigabit models and 48 port Gigabit -
Ethernet models Ethernet models 32 MB buffer for 24 and Ethernet models
48-port Multigigabit
64,000 flow on 24- and
64,000 flow on 24-
16,000 flows on 24- and 16,000 flows on 24- and 48-port Gigabit Ethernet
Flexible NetFlow (FNF) and 48-port Gigabit
48-port Gigabit 48-port Gigabit models Up to 512,000
entries Ethernet models
Ethernet models Ethernet models 128,000 flows on 24-port
Multigigabit
DRAM 4 GB 2 GB 8 GB 8 GB 16 GB
Flash 4 GB 4 GB 16 GB 16 GB 16 GB
VLAN IDs 4096 1024 4094 4094 4094
Total Switched Virtual
1000 512 1000 1000 4000
Interfaces (SVIs)
9198 bytes / 9216
Jumbo frames 9198 bytes 9198 bytes 9198 bytes 9198 bytes
bytes
Switching capacity 128 Gbps - 176 Gbps 56 Gbps - 176 Gbps 208 Gbps - 640 Gbps 56 Gbps - 176 Gbps Up to 6.4-Tbps
190.4 Mpps - 261.9 83.33 Mpps - 261.9 154.76 Mpps - 476.19 41.66 Mpps - 130.95
Forwarding rate Up to 2 Bpps
Mpps Mpps Mpps Mpps