Opteron 8350 HE 's Advantages
Higher specification of memory (667 vs 3)
Lower TDP (79W vs 80W)
Intel Xeon E5 2609 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 5 months late
Higher base frequency (2.4GHz vs 2GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (10MB vs 2MB)
More modern manufacturing process (32nm vs 65nm)