Intel Xeon D 1531 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 5 months late
Newer PCIe version (3 vs 2)
More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 45nm)
Lower TDP (35W vs 115W)
Opteron 1385 's Advantages
Higher specification of memory (1333 vs 4)
Higher base frequency (2.7GHz vs 2.2GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (6MB vs 1.5MB)