Intel Xeon E5 2689 's Advantages
Lower TDP (115W vs 280W)
AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX 's Advantages
Released 10 years late
Higher specification of memory (DDR4-3200 vs DDR3-1600)
Newer PCIe version (4 vs 3)
Higher base frequency (3.8GHz vs 2.6GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (128MB vs 20MB)