Opteron 6348 's Advantages
Lower TDP (115W vs 165W)
Intel Xeon E5 2698A v3 's Advantages
Released 2 years late
Higher specification of memory (2133 vs 1866)
Newer PCIe version (3 vs 2)
Larger L3 cache size (40MB vs 8MB)
More modern manufacturing process (22nm vs 32nm)