Intel Xeon E5 2680 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (2.7GHz vs 2.25GHz)
Lower TDP (130W vs 225W)
AMD EPYC 7742 '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 20MB)
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 32nm)