Xeon 6960P 's Advantages
Released 12 years and 6 months late
Higher specification of memory (8800 vs 3)
Newer PCIe version (5 vs 3)
Larger L3 cache size (432MB vs 20MB)
More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 32nm)
Intel Xeon E5 2690 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (2.9GHz vs 2.7GHz)
Lower TDP (135W vs 500W)