AMD EPYC 7281 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 9 months late
Higher specification of memory (DDR4-2666 vs DDR3)
Larger L3 cache size (32MB vs 10MB)
Intel Xeon E5 2609 v2 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (2.5GHz vs 2.1GHz)
Lower TDP (80W vs 170W)