Intel Xeon E5 2660 v2 's Advantages
Lower TDP (95W vs 225W)
AMD EPYC 7542 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 11 months late
Higher specification of memory (3200 vs 3)
Newer PCIe version (4 vs 3)
Higher base frequency (2.9GHz vs 2.2GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (128MB vs 25MB)
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 22nm)