Intel Xeon D 1540 's Advantages
Released 10 months late
More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 22nm)
Lower TDP (45W vs 80W)
Intel Xeon E3 1241 v3 's Advantages
Higher specification of memory (1600 vs 4)
Higher base frequency (3.5GHz vs 2GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (8MB vs 1.5MB)