Xeon w3 2525 's Advantages
Released 12 years and 5 months late
Higher specification of memory (4400 vs 3)
Newer PCIe version (5 vs 3)
Higher base frequency (3.5GHz vs 2.5GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (22.5MB vs 15MB)
More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 32nm)
Intel Xeon E5 2640 's Advantages
Lower TDP (95W vs 175W)