Intel Xeon Gold 5420 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 7 months late
Higher specification of memory (4400 vs 2666)
Newer PCIe version (5 vs 3)
Larger L3 cache size (52.5MB vs 32MB)
More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 14nm)
AMD EPYC 7281 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (2.1GHz vs 2GHz)
Lower TDP (170W vs 205W)