Intel Xeon E5 2420 's Advantages
Lower TDP (95W vs 280W)
AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 10 months late
Higher specification of memory (3200 vs 3)
Higher base frequency (3.8GHz vs 1.9GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (128MB vs 15MB)
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 32nm)