Intel Xeon E3 1280 v3 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 4 months late
Newer PCIe version (3 vs 2)
More modern manufacturing process (22nm vs 32nm)
Lower TDP (82W vs 130W)
Intel Xeon X5698 's Advantages
Higher specification of memory (DDR3 vs DDR3)
Higher base frequency (4.4GHz vs 3.6GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (12MB vs 8MB)