Xeon E 2478 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 3 months late
Higher specification of memory (4800 vs 2133)
Newer PCIe version (5 vs 3)
Higher base frequency (2.8GHz vs 2.3GHz)
More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 22nm)
Lower TDP (80W vs 145W)
Intel Xeon E5 2696 v3 's Advantages
Larger L3 cache size (45MB vs 24MB)