Opteron 6348 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (2.8GHz vs 2.6GHz)
Lower TDP (115W vs 135W)
Intel Xeon E5 2690 v3 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 10 months late
Higher specification of memory (2133 vs 1866)
Newer PCIe version (3 vs 2)
Larger L3 cache size (30MB vs 8MB)
More modern manufacturing process (22nm vs 32nm)