Xeon 6960P 's Advantages
Released 13 years and 4 months late
Higher specification of memory (8800 vs 3)
Newer PCIe version (5 vs 3)
Larger L3 cache size (432MB vs 8MB)
More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 32nm)
Intel Xeon E3 1290 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (3.6GHz vs 2.7GHz)
Lower TDP (95W vs 500W)