AMD EPYC 7261 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (2.5GHz vs 2GHz)
Lower TDP (170W vs 205W)
Intel Xeon Gold 5420 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 7 months late
Higher specification of memory (DDR5-4400 vs DDR4-2666)
Newer PCIe version (5 vs 3)
Larger L3 cache size (52.5MB vs 32MB)