Opteron 6272 's Advantages
Lower TDP (115W vs 135W)
Intel Xeon E5 2698 v3 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 10 months late
Higher specification of memory (2133 vs 3)
Newer PCIe version (3 vs 2)
Higher base frequency (2.3GHz vs 2.1GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (40MB vs 16MB)
More modern manufacturing process (22nm vs 32nm)