Intel Xeon E3 1290 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (3.6GHz vs 3.5GHz)
Lower TDP (95W vs 155W)
AMD EPYC 7F52 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 11 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)