Intel Xeon E5640 's Advantages
Larger L3 cache size (12MB vs 8MB)
Xeon E 2124 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 4 months late
Higher specification of memory (DDR4-2666 vs DDR3)
Newer PCIe version (3 vs 2)
Higher base frequency (3.3GHz vs 2.666GHz)
More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 32nm)
Lower TDP (71W vs 80W)