Intel Xeon D 1540 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 4 months late
Newer PCIe version (3 vs 2)
More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 32nm)
Lower TDP (45W vs 115W)
Opteron 6344 's Advantages
Higher specification of memory (1866 vs 4)
Higher base frequency (2.6GHz vs 2GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (8MB vs 1.5MB)