Intel Xeon E3 1220 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (3.1GHz vs 2.25GHz)
Lower TDP (80W vs 360W)
AMD EPYC 9754 's Advantages
Released 12 years and 2 months late
Higher specification of memory (DDR5-4800 vs DDR3)
Newer PCIe version (5 vs 3)
Larger L3 cache size (256MB vs 8MB)