AMD EPYC 7H12 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 6 months late
Higher specification of memory (DDR4-3200 vs DDR3)
Newer PCIe version (4 vs 3)
Larger L3 cache size (256MB vs 20MB)
Intel Xeon E5 2690 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (2.9GHz vs 2.6GHz)
Lower TDP (135W vs 280W)