Opteron 6180 SE 's Advantages
Larger L3 cache size (12MB vs 8MB)
Intel Xeon E3 1230 v3 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 4 months late
Higher specification of memory (DDR3-1600 vs DDR3-1333)
Newer PCIe version (3 vs 2)
Higher base frequency (3.3GHz vs 2.5GHz)
Lower TDP (80W vs 140W)