AMD EPYC 7542 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 3 months late
Higher specification of memory (DDR4-3200 vs DDR3)
Newer PCIe version (4 vs 3)
Higher base frequency (2.9GHz vs 2.3GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (128MB vs 8MB)
Intel Xeon E3 1220L v2 's Advantages
Lower TDP (17W vs 225W)