Intel Xeon E3 1231 v3 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 2 months late
Higher specification of memory (1600 vs 1333)
Newer PCIe version (3 vs 2)
Higher base frequency (3.4GHz vs 2.666GHz)
More modern manufacturing process (22nm vs 45nm)
Lower TDP (80W vs 130W)
Xeon X7542 's Advantages
Larger L3 cache size (18MB vs 8MB)