Intel Xeon E5 2420 v2 's Advantages
Lower TDP (80W vs 500W)
Xeon 6960P 's Advantages
Released 11 years late
Higher specification of memory (8800 vs 3)
Higher base frequency (2.7GHz vs 2.2GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (432MB vs 15MB)
More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 22nm)