Intel Xeon E5 2696 v3 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 6 months late
Higher specification of memory (2133 vs 3)
Larger L3 cache size (45MB vs 15MB)
More modern manufacturing process (22nm vs 32nm)
Intel Xeon E5 2667 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (2.9GHz vs 2.3GHz)
Lower TDP (130W vs 145W)