AMD EPYC 7252 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 3 months late
Higher specification of memory (DDR4-3200 vs DDR3-1600)
Newer PCIe version (4 vs 3)
Larger L3 cache size (64MB vs 8MB)
Intel Xeon E3 1226 v3 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (3.3GHz vs 2.8GHz)
Lower TDP (84W vs 120W)