Opteron 6168 's Advantages
Lower TDP (115W vs 145W)
Intel Xeon E5 2697 v3 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 6 months late
Higher specification of memory (DDR4-2133 vs DDR3)
Newer PCIe version (3 vs 2)
Higher base frequency (2.6GHz vs 1.9GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (35MB vs 12MB)