AMD EPYC 7261 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 9 months late
Higher specification of memory (2666 vs 2133)
Larger L3 cache size (32MB vs 25MB)
More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 22nm)
Intel Xeon E5 1681 v3 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (2.9GHz vs 2.5GHz)
Lower TDP (135W vs 170W)