Intel Xeon E5 2629 v3 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 6 months late
Higher specification of memory (1866 vs 3)
Newer PCIe version (3 vs 2)
Larger L3 cache size (20MB vs 12MB)
More modern manufacturing process (22nm vs 32nm)
Intel Xeon E5640 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (2.666GHz vs 2.4GHz)
Lower TDP (80W vs 85W)