AMD EPYC 7551 's Advantages
Lower TDP (180W vs 225W)
AMD EPYC 7542 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 2 months late
Higher specification of memory (3200 vs 2666)
Newer PCIe version (4 vs 3)
Higher base frequency (2.9GHz vs 2GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (128MB vs 64MB)
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)