Intel Xeon E5 2696 v3 's Advantages
Lower TDP (145W vs 500W)
Xeon 6960P 's Advantages
Released 10 years late
Higher specification of memory (8800 vs 2133)
Newer PCIe version (5 vs 3)
Higher base frequency (2.7GHz vs 2.3GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (432MB vs 45MB)
More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 22nm)