Xeon E 2478 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 6 months late
Higher specification of memory (4800 vs 1866)
Newer PCIe version (5 vs 3)
Higher base frequency (2.8GHz vs 2.2GHz)
More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 22nm)
Lower TDP (80W vs 140W)
Intel Xeon E7 8860 v3 's Advantages
Larger L3 cache size (40MB vs 24MB)