Xeon EC5539 's Advantages
Lower TDP (65W vs 145W)
Intel Xeon E5 2696 v3 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 7 months late
Higher specification of memory (2133 vs 1333)
Newer PCIe version (3 vs 2)
Higher base frequency (2.3GHz vs 2.266GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (45MB vs 4MB)
More modern manufacturing process (22nm vs 45nm)