Intel Xeon D 1531 's Advantages
Lower TDP (35W vs 500W)
Xeon 6972P 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 10 months late
Higher specification of memory (8800 vs 4)
Newer PCIe version (5 vs 3)
Higher base frequency (2.4GHz vs 2.2GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (480MB vs 1.5MB)
More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 14nm)