Intel Xeon X5690 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (3.466GHz vs 2GHz)
Lower TDP (130W vs 500W)
Xeon 6980P 's Advantages
Released 13 years and 7 months late
Higher specification of memory (8800 vs 3)
Newer PCIe version (5 vs 2)
Larger L3 cache size (504MB vs 12MB)
More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 32nm)