Intel Xeon E5 2686 v3 's Advantages
Lower TDP (120W vs 350W)
AMD Threadripper PRO 7985WX 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 1 months late
Higher specification of memory (5200 vs 2133)
Newer PCIe version (5 vs 3)
Higher base frequency (3.2GHz vs 2GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (256MB vs 45MB)
More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 22nm)