Intel Xeon E5 2680 's Advantages
Larger L3 cache size (20MB vs 12MB)
Xeon E 2434 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 9 months late
Higher specification of memory (DDR5-4800 vs DDR3)
Newer PCIe version (5 vs 3)
Higher base frequency (3.4GHz vs 2.7GHz)
More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 32nm)
Lower TDP (55W vs 130W)