Intel Xeon E3 1240 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (3.3GHz vs 2.8GHz)
Lower TDP (80W vs 180W)
AMD EPYC 7402 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 4 months late
Higher specification of memory (DDR4-3200 vs DDR3)
Newer PCIe version (4 vs 3)
Larger L3 cache size (128MB vs 8MB)