Intel Xeon E7 8870 v3 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 9 months late
Higher specification of memory (1866 vs 1333)
Newer PCIe version (3 vs 2)
Larger L3 cache size (45MB vs 8MB)
More modern manufacturing process (22nm vs 45nm)
Xeon X3470 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (2.933GHz vs 2.1GHz)
Lower TDP (95W vs 140W)