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While that is true, it is also important to keep in mind that Intel is quite conservative with the Xeons, meaning that they lag behind the consumer chips by one tick/tock cycle (or whatever they call it these days)

IOW - by the time we see 10nm Xeons hit the market, AMD will most likely be on the next iteration of the Zen architecture.

10 nm Ice Lake Xeons are coming in H1 2020.

I think now it's process-architecture-optimize (but the 10nm took so long that they just kept optimizing and Sunny Cove became a process and architecture change).

I believe they call it the tick-tock-tock-tock-tock-tock cycle; shrink, microarchitecture, optimization, optimization, rebranding, rebranding.

They are Intel's latest and greatest processors in the respective product lines. 10 nm Xeons belong in a somewhat hypothetical future; comparing actual AMD products with Intel roadmaps and projections wouldn't be fair.

Generally Xeons lag a process node behind the desktop lineup.