Intel Xeon E5 2697 v2 's Advantages
Lower TDP (130W vs 155W)
AMD EPYC 7262 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 11 months late
Higher specification of memory (3200 vs 3)
Newer PCIe version (4 vs 3)
Higher base frequency (3.1GHz vs 2.7GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (128MB vs 30MB)
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 22nm)