Intel Xeon X5690 's Advantages
Lower TDP (130W vs 280W)
AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5945WX 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 1 months late
Higher specification of memory (DDR4-3200 vs DDR3)
Newer PCIe version (4 vs 2)
Higher base frequency (4.1GHz vs 3.466GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (64MB vs 12MB)