AMD Ryzen 5 2600X 's Advantages
Higher specification of memory (DDR4-2933 vs DDR4-2666)
Higher base frequency (3.6GHz vs 3.3GHz)
Lower TDP (95W vs 165W)
Intel Core i9 9940X 's Advantages
Released 6 months late
Larger memory bandwidth (85GB/s vs 43.71GB/s)
Larger L3 cache size (20MB vs 16MB)