Intel Xeon E5 2690 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (2.9GHz vs 2.6GHz)
Lower TDP (135W vs 400W)
AMD EPYC 9655 's Advantages
Released 12 years and 7 months late
Higher specification of memory (6000 vs 3)
Newer PCIe version (5 vs 3)
Larger L3 cache size (384MB vs 20MB)
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 32nm)