Intel Xeon E5 2690 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (2.9GHz vs 2.4GHz)
AMD EPYC 7303P 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 6 months late
Higher specification of memory (DDR4-3200 vs DDR3)
Newer PCIe version (4 vs 3)
Larger L3 cache size (64MB vs 20MB)
Lower TDP (130W vs 135W)