Intel Xeon E5 2403 v2 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 4 months late
More modern manufacturing process (22nm vs 32nm)
Lower TDP (80W vs 95W)
Intel Xeon E5 2420 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (1.9GHz vs 1.8GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (15MB vs 10MB)