Intel Xeon E5 2609 's Advantages
Lower TDP (80W vs 225W)
AMD EPYC 7642 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 5 months late
Higher specification of memory (3200 vs 3)
Newer PCIe version (4 vs 3)
Larger L3 cache size (256MB vs 10MB)
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 32nm)