Intel Xeon E5 2697 v2 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (2.7GHz vs 2.25GHz)
Lower TDP (130W vs 225W)
AMD EPYC 7742 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 11 months late
Higher specification of memory (DDR4-3200 vs DDR3)
Newer PCIe version (4 vs 3)
Larger L3 cache size (256MB vs 30MB)