Intel Core i7 6950X 's Advantages
Lower TDP (140W vs 350W)
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7960X 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 5 months late
Higher specification of memory (DDR5-5200 vs DDR4-2133)
Larger memory bandwidth (166.4GB/s vs 76.8GB/s)
Newer PCIe version (5 vs 3.0)
Higher base frequency (4.2GHz vs 3.0GHz)