Intel Xeon E5503 's Advantages
Lower TDP (80W vs 95W)
Xeon E 2278G 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 2 months late
Higher specification of memory (2666 vs 3)
Newer PCIe version (3 vs 2)
Higher base frequency (3.4GHz vs 2GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (16MB vs 4MB)
More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 45nm)