Xeon E7 8850 's Advantages
Lower TDP (130W vs 500W)
Xeon 6960P 's Advantages
Released 13 years and 5 months late
Higher specification of memory (8800 vs 1333)
Higher base frequency (2.7GHz vs 2GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (432MB vs 24MB)
More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 32nm)