Intel Xeon X5670 's Advantages
Lower TDP (95W vs 130W)
Intel Xeon E5 1680 v2 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 6 months late
Higher specification of memory (1866 vs 3)
Newer PCIe version (3 vs 2)
Higher base frequency (3GHz vs 2.933GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (25MB vs 12MB)
More modern manufacturing process (22nm vs 32nm)