Intel Xeon E5 2658 's Advantages
Lower TDP (95W vs 500W)
Xeon 6972P 's Advantages
Released 12 years and 6 months late
Higher specification of memory (8800 vs 3)
Newer PCIe version (5 vs 3)
Higher base frequency (2.4GHz vs 2.1GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (480MB vs 20MB)
More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 32nm)