Xeon Platinum 8280 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 8 months late
Higher specification of memory (4 vs 3)
Larger L3 cache size (38.5MB vs 8MB)
More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 32nm)
Intel Xeon E3 1240 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (3.3GHz vs 2.7GHz)
Lower TDP (80W vs 205W)