Johan at AnandTech likes it a lot: http://www.anandtech.com/print/9185/intel-xeon-d-review-performance-per-watt-server-soc-champion
The Xeon D is a Broadwell based chip made to fit between the E3 and E5 models, and for use in high density servers. It also gets most of the RAS features missing in Xeon E3 models.
That's fine and everything, but too bad it's not available in consumer systems, especially as a 65W model running at higher speeds (like 3.0/3.6 turbo). Besides the 2 memory channel limitation (128GB max), it looks like it could be a nice desktop chip if the clocks were nudged up a bit. It's a BGA package processor and only SuperMicro seems to be selling boards and servers with it in the channel. Lack of multiple PCIe slots kind of kills it for desktop use on those SuperMicro products since the chip itself can support up to 32 PCIe 2.0/3.0 lanes.
The Xeon D is a Broadwell based chip made to fit between the E3 and E5 models, and for use in high density servers. It also gets most of the RAS features missing in Xeon E3 models.
That's fine and everything, but too bad it's not available in consumer systems, especially as a 65W model running at higher speeds (like 3.0/3.6 turbo). Besides the 2 memory channel limitation (128GB max), it looks like it could be a nice desktop chip if the clocks were nudged up a bit. It's a BGA package processor and only SuperMicro seems to be selling boards and servers with it in the channel. Lack of multiple PCIe slots kind of kills it for desktop use on those SuperMicro products since the chip itself can support up to 32 PCIe 2.0/3.0 lanes.