Intel Xeon E5 2696 v3 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 5 months late
Higher specification of memory (2133 vs 1333)
Larger L3 cache size (45MB vs 30MB)
More modern manufacturing process (22nm vs 32nm)
Xeon E7 4870 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (2.4GHz vs 2.3GHz)
Lower TDP (130W vs 145W)