Intel Xeon E3 1270 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (3.4GHz vs 2.25GHz)
Lower TDP (80W vs 225W)
AMD EPYC 7742 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 4 months late
Higher specification of memory (3200 vs 3)
Newer PCIe version (4 vs 3)
Larger L3 cache size (256MB vs 8MB)
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 32nm)