Xeon E 2478 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 7 months late
Higher specification of memory (4800 vs 3)
Newer PCIe version (5 vs 3)
Larger L3 cache size (24MB vs 8MB)
More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 22nm)
Intel Xeon E3 1270 v2 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (3.5GHz vs 2.8GHz)
Lower TDP (69W vs 80W)