Intel Xeon Platinum 9242 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 7 months late
Higher specification of memory (4 vs 3)
Larger L3 cache size (71.5MB vs 10MB)
More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 22nm)
Intel Xeon E5 2609 v2 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (2.5GHz vs 2.3GHz)
Lower TDP (80W vs 350W)