Intel Xeon Platinum 9242 's Advantages
Released 8 years late
Higher specification of memory (4 vs 3)
Larger L3 cache size (71.5MB vs 8MB)
More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 32nm)
Intel Xeon E3 1270 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (3.4GHz vs 2.3GHz)
Lower TDP (80W vs 350W)