Intel Xeon E5 2609 's Advantages
Lower TDP (80W vs 350W)
AMD Threadripper PRO 7985WX 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 7 months late
Higher specification of memory (5200 vs 3)
Newer PCIe version (5 vs 3)
Higher base frequency (3.2GHz vs 2.4GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (256MB vs 10MB)
More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 32nm)