Intel Xeon Platinum 9242 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 2 months late
Larger L3 cache size (71.5MB vs 8MB)
More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 45nm)
Xeon EC5549 's Advantages
Higher specification of memory (1333 vs 4)
Higher base frequency (2.533GHz vs 2.3GHz)
Lower TDP (85W vs 350W)