Xeon 6960P 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 4 months late
Higher specification of memory (8800 vs 2933)
Newer PCIe version (5 vs 3)
Larger L3 cache size (432MB vs 20MB)
More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 14nm)
Intel Xeon W 1290 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (3.2GHz vs 2.7GHz)
Lower TDP (80W vs 500W)