Intel Xeon E5606 's Advantages
Lower TDP (80W vs 165W)
Intel Xeon E5 2698A v3 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 9 months late
Higher specification of memory (2133 vs 3)
Newer PCIe version (3 vs 2)
Higher base frequency (2.8GHz vs 2.133GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (40MB vs 8MB)
More modern manufacturing process (22nm vs 32nm)