Intel Xeon E5 2690 '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 (4800 vs 3)
Newer PCIe version (5 vs 3)
Higher base frequency (3.4GHz vs 2.9GHz)
More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 32nm)
Lower TDP (55W vs 135W)