AMD EPYC 7742 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 11 months late
Higher specification of memory (DDR4-3200 vs DDR4-2133)
Newer PCIe version (4 vs 3)
Larger L3 cache size (256MB vs 35MB)
Intel Xeon E5 2697 v3 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (2.6GHz vs 2.25GHz)
Lower TDP (145W vs 225W)