AMD EPYC 7401 's Advantages
Lower TDP (170W vs 400W)
AMD EPYC 9684X 's Advantages
Released 6 years late
Higher specification of memory (4800 vs 2666)
Newer PCIe version (5 vs 3)
Higher base frequency (2.55GHz vs 2GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (1152MB vs 64MB)
More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 14nm)