Intel Xeon E5645 's Advantages
Lower TDP (80W vs 115W)
Intel Xeon E5 2689 's Advantages
Released 2 years late
Higher specification of memory (1600 vs 3)
Newer PCIe version (3 vs 2)
Higher base frequency (2.6GHz vs 2.4GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (20MB vs 12MB)