Intel Xeon E5 2670 v3 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 4 months late
Larger L3 cache size (30MB vs 8MB)
More modern manufacturing process (22nm vs 32nm)
Intel Xeon E3 1290 's Advantages
Higher specification of memory (DDR3 vs DDR3)
Higher base frequency (3.6GHz vs 2.3GHz)
Lower TDP (95W vs 120W)