Intel Xeon E5 1603 v3 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 4 months late
Higher specification of memory (1866 vs 3)
Larger L3 cache size (10MB vs 8MB)
More modern manufacturing process (22nm vs 32nm)
Intel Xeon E3 1290 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (3.6GHz vs 2.8GHz)
Lower TDP (95W vs 140W)