Xeon E7420 's Advantages
Lower TDP (90W vs 360W)
AMD EPYC Embedded 9654P 's Advantages
Released 14 years and 6 months late
Higher specification of memory (4800 vs 667)
Higher base frequency (2.4GHz vs 2.133GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (384MB vs 8MB)
More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 45nm)