Xeon E 2488 's Advantages
Released 12 years and 8 months late
Higher specification of memory (4800 vs 3)
Higher base frequency (3.2GHz vs 2.4GHz)
More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 32nm)
Lower TDP (95W vs 130W)
Intel Xeon E7 8870 's Advantages
Larger L3 cache size (30MB vs 24MB)