Intel Xeon E5 2609 v3 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 5 months late
Higher specification of memory (1600 vs 3)
Larger L3 cache size (15MB vs 6MB)
More modern manufacturing process (22nm vs 32nm)
Lower TDP (85W vs 95W)
Intel Xeon E3 1225 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (3.1GHz vs 1.9GHz)