The Intel Xeon D Review: Performance Per Watt Server SoC Champion?

Eight 14nm Broadwell cores, a shared L3-cache, dual 10 gigabit MAC, a PCIe 3.0 root with 24 lanes and a lot more find a home in Intel's most powerful server SoC ever, the Xeon D-1540. Thanks to Supermicro's 5028D-TN4T superserver, we are able to compare the latest Xeon with the Atom C2000 SoC, low power Xeon E5s and the Xeon E3-1200 v3.