Xeon E7 4850 's Advantages
Lower TDP (130W vs 225W)
AMD EPYC 7542 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 4 months late
Higher specification of memory (3200 vs 1333)
Higher base frequency (2.9GHz vs 2GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (128MB vs 24MB)
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 32nm)