Intel Xeon w3 2435 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 9 months late
Higher specification of memory (4400 vs 3)
Newer PCIe version (5 vs 3)
Larger L3 cache size (22.5MB vs 8MB)
More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 22nm)
Intel Xeon E3 1290 v2 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (3.7GHz vs 3.1GHz)
Lower TDP (87W vs 165W)