Opteron A1170 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 9 months late
Higher specification of memory (1866 vs 1333)
More modern manufacturing process (28nm vs 32nm)
Lower TDP (32W vs 130W)
Xeon E7 2870 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (2.4GHz vs 2GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (30MB vs 8MB)