Intel Xeon E3 1240 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (3.3GHz vs 2.6GHz)
Lower TDP (80W vs 400W)
AMD EPYC 9655P 's Advantages
Released 13 years and 6 months late
Higher specification of memory (6000 vs 3)
Newer PCIe version (5 vs 3)
Larger L3 cache size (384MB vs 8MB)
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 32nm)