Intel Xeon D 1521 's Advantages
Lower TDP (45W vs 120W)
AMD EPYC 7252 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 9 months late
Higher specification of memory (DDR4-3200 vs DDR3)
Newer PCIe version (4 vs 3)
Higher base frequency (2.8GHz vs 2.4GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (64MB vs 1.5MB)