Opteron A1170 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 11 months late
Newer PCIe version (3 vs 2)
Lower TDP (32W vs 95W)
Intel Xeon X5672 's Advantages
Higher specification of memory (DDR3 vs DDR3)
Higher base frequency (3.2GHz vs 2GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (12MB vs 8MB)