Intel Xeon E5 2690 v3 's Advantages
Larger L3 cache size (30MB vs 24MB)
Xeon E 2478 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 3 months late
Higher specification of memory (DDR5-4800 vs DDR4-2133)
Newer PCIe version (5 vs 3)
Higher base frequency (2.8GHz vs 2.6GHz)
More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 22nm)
Lower TDP (80W vs 135W)