Intel Xeon Silver 4116 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 10 months late
Higher specification of memory (DDR4 vs DDR3)
More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 22nm)
Lower TDP (85W vs 130W)
Intel Xeon E5 2697 v2 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (2.7GHz vs 2.1GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (30MB vs 16.5MB)