Intel Xeon E3 1230 v5 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 1 months late
Higher base frequency (3.4GHz vs 2.9GHz)
More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 22nm)
Lower TDP (80W vs 135W)
Intel Xeon E5 1681 v3 's Advantages
Higher specification of memory (DDR4-2133 vs DDR3)
Larger L3 cache size (25MB vs 8MB)