AMD EPYC 7542 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 10 months late
Higher specification of memory (3200 vs 2133)
Newer PCIe version (4 vs 3)
Larger L3 cache size (128MB vs 8MB)
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)
Intel Xeon E3 1270 v5 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (3.6GHz vs 2.9GHz)
Lower TDP (80W vs 225W)