Intel Xeon D 1587 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 10 months late
More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 32nm)
Lower TDP (65W vs 95W)
Intel Xeon E3 1280 's Advantages
Higher specification of memory (DDR3 vs DDR3)
Higher base frequency (3.5GHz vs 1.7GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (8MB vs 1.5MB)