Xeon EC5549 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (2.533GHz vs 1.9GHz)
Intel Xeon E5 2609 v3 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 7 months late
Higher specification of memory (1600 vs 1333)
Newer PCIe version (3 vs 2)
Larger L3 cache size (15MB vs 8MB)
More modern manufacturing process (22nm vs 45nm)