Intel Xeon E5 2697 v2 's Advantages
Lower TDP (130W vs 280W)
AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 6 months late
Higher specification of memory (3200 vs 3)
Newer PCIe version (4 vs 3)
Higher base frequency (3.8GHz vs 2.7GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (128MB vs 30MB)
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 22nm)