AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 6 months late
Higher specification of memory (3200 vs 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 8MB)
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)
Intel Core i7 7740X 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (4.3GHz vs 3.7GHz)
Lower TDP (112W vs 280W)