Intel Xeon E5 2649 v3 's Advantages
Lower TDP (105W vs 225W)
AMD EPYC 7542 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 11 months late
Higher specification of memory (3200 vs 2133)
Newer PCIe version (4 vs 3)
Higher base frequency (2.9GHz vs 2.3GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (128MB vs 25MB)
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 22nm)