Intel Xeon E5507 's Advantages
Lower TDP (80W vs 84W)
Intel Xeon E3 1226 v3 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 2 months late
Higher specification of memory (1600 vs 3)
Newer PCIe version (3 vs 2)
Higher base frequency (3.3GHz vs 2.266GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (8MB vs 4MB)
More modern manufacturing process (22nm vs 45nm)