Intel Xeon E5 4617 's Advantages
Lower TDP (130W vs 280W)
AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5945WX 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 10 months late
Higher specification of memory (DDR4-3200 vs DDR3)
Newer PCIe version (4 vs 3)
Higher base frequency (4.1GHz vs 2.9GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (64MB vs 15MB)