Opteron 6276 's Advantages
Lower TDP (115W vs 130W)
Intel Xeon E5 2697 v2 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 10 months late
Newer PCIe version (3 vs 2)
Higher base frequency (2.7GHz vs 2.3GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (30MB vs 8MB)
More modern manufacturing process (22nm vs 32nm)