Xeon 6960P 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 4 months late
Higher specification of memory (8800 vs 1600)
Newer PCIe version (5 vs 3)
Larger L3 cache size (432MB vs 8MB)
More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 22nm)
Intel Xeon E3 1231 v3 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (3.4GHz vs 2.7GHz)
Lower TDP (80W vs 500W)