Intel Xeon D 1527 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 7 months late
Higher specification of memory (4 vs 3)
More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 32nm)
Lower TDP (35W vs 130W)
Intel Xeon E7 8860 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (2.276GHz vs 2.2GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (30MB vs 1.5MB)