Xeon E5540 's Advantages
Lower TDP (80W vs 200W)
AMD EPYC Embedded 9254 's Advantages
Released 14 years late
Higher specification of memory (4800 vs 1066)
Newer PCIe version (5 vs 2)
Higher base frequency (2.9GHz vs 2.533GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (128MB vs 8MB)
More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 45nm)