Intel Core i7 7800X 's Advantages
Lower TDP (140W vs 350W)
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7970X 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 5 months late
Higher specification of memory (DDR5-5200 vs DDR4-2400)
Larger memory bandwidth (166.4GB/s vs 79.47GB/s)
Newer PCIe version (5 vs 3.0)
Higher base frequency (4GHz vs 3.5GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (128MB vs 8MB)