Intel Xeon E5 2697 v2 's Advantages
Lower TDP (130W vs 205W)
Intel Xeon Gold 6346 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 7 months late
Higher specification of memory (3200 vs 3)
Newer PCIe version (4 vs 3)
Higher base frequency (3.1GHz vs 2.7GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (36MB vs 30MB)
More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 22nm)