AMD EPYC 7542 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 11 months late
Higher specification of memory (DDR4-3200 vs DDR4-2133)
Newer PCIe version (4 vs 3)
Larger L3 cache size (128MB vs 25MB)
Intel Xeon E5 2687W v3 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (3.1GHz vs 2.9GHz)
Lower TDP (160W vs 225W)