Intel Xeon D 1518 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 11 months late
More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 32nm)
Lower TDP (35W vs 130W)
Intel Xeon E7 8870 's Advantages
Higher specification of memory (DDR3 vs DDR3)
Higher base frequency (2.4GHz vs 2.2GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (30MB vs 1.5MB)