Opteron 43CX EE 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (2.2GHz vs 1.9GHz)
Lower TDP (35W vs 105W)
Intel Xeon E5 4640 v3 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 6 months late
Higher specification of memory (1866 vs 3)
Larger L3 cache size (30MB vs 8MB)
More modern manufacturing process (22nm vs 32nm)