Xeon D 1712TR 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 11 months late
Higher specification of memory (2400 vs 1333)
Newer PCIe version (4 vs 2)
More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 45nm)
Lower TDP (40W vs 105W)
Xeon E6540 's Advantages
Larger L3 cache size (18MB vs 10MB)