Xeon E 2478 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 4 months late
Higher specification of memory (4800 vs 4)
Newer PCIe version (5 vs 3)
Larger L3 cache size (24MB vs 8MB)
More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 14nm)
Intel Xeon E3 1285 v6 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (4.1GHz vs 2.8GHz)
Lower TDP (79W vs 80W)