Xeon E 2456 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 11 months late
Higher specification of memory (4800 vs 2133)
Newer PCIe version (5 vs 3)
Higher base frequency (3.3GHz vs 2.5GHz)
More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 22nm)
Lower TDP (80W vs 120W)
Intel Xeon E5 2678 v3 's Advantages
Larger L3 cache size (30MB vs 18MB)