Intel Xeon E7 8850 's Advantages
Lower TDP (130W vs 280W)
AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5945WX 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 11 months late
Higher specification of memory (3200 vs 3)
Higher base frequency (4.1GHz vs 2GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (64MB vs 30MB)
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 32nm)