Intel Xeon E5649 's Advantages
Lower TDP (80W vs 280W)
AMD EPYC 9354 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 9 months late
Higher specification of memory (4800 vs 3)
Newer PCIe version (5 vs 2)
Higher base frequency (3.25GHz vs 2.533GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (256MB vs 12MB)
More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 32nm)