Intel Xeon E3 1278L v4 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 7 months late
Newer PCIe version (3 vs 2)
More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 32nm)
Lower TDP (47W vs 115W)
Opteron 6308 's Advantages
Higher specification of memory (1866 vs 1600)
Higher base frequency (3.5GHz vs 2GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (8MB vs 6MB)