Xeon 6960P 's Advantages
Released 11 years late
Higher specification of memory (8800 vs 3)
Newer PCIe version (5 vs 3)
Larger L3 cache size (432MB vs 30MB)
More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 22nm)
Intel Xeon E5 2697 v2 's Advantages
Lower TDP (130W vs 500W)