Intel Xeon X5690 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (3.466GHz vs 2.55GHz)
Lower TDP (130W vs 400W)
AMD EPYC 9684X 's Advantages
Released 12 years and 4 months late
Higher specification of memory (DDR5-4800 vs DDR3)
Newer PCIe version (5 vs 2)
Larger L3 cache size (1152MB vs 12MB)