Intel Xeon E5 2697 v2 's Advantages
Lower TDP (130W vs 280W)
AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5945WX 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 6 months late
Higher specification of memory (DDR4-3200 vs DDR3)
Newer PCIe version (4 vs 3)
Higher base frequency (4.1GHz vs 2.7GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (64MB vs 30MB)