AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 6 months late
Higher specification of memory (DDR4-3200 vs DDR4-2666)
Larger memory bandwidth (95.37GB/s vs 42.7GB/s)
Newer PCIe version (4.0 vs 3.0)
Larger L3 cache size (128MB vs 6MB)
Intel Core i5 7640X 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (4.0GHz vs 3.7GHz)
Lower TDP (112W vs 280W)