Intel Xeon X5672 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (3.2GHz vs 2.9GHz)
Lower TDP (95W vs 225W)
AMD EPYC 7542 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 6 months late
Higher specification of memory (DDR4-3200 vs DDR3)
Newer PCIe version (4 vs 2)
Larger L3 cache size (128MB vs 12MB)