Opteron 6278 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (2.4GHz vs 2.2GHz)
Intel Xeon E5 2660 v2 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 4 months late
Newer PCIe version (3 vs 2)
Larger L3 cache size (25MB vs 8MB)
More modern manufacturing process (22nm vs 32nm)
Lower TDP (95W vs 115W)