Xeon EC5509 's Advantages
Lower TDP (85W vs 120W)
AMD EPYC 7251 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 4 months late
Higher specification of memory (2400 vs 1066)
Newer PCIe version (3 vs 2)
Higher base frequency (2.1GHz vs 2GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (32MB vs 8MB)
More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 45nm)