Intel Xeon D 1521 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 2 months late
More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 22nm)
Lower TDP (45W vs 135W)
Intel Xeon E5 1681 v3 's Advantages
Higher specification of memory (2133 vs 4)
Higher base frequency (2.9GHz vs 2.4GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (25MB vs 1.5MB)