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Core i5-4590 vs Engineering Sample 906EC


Description
The i5-4590 is based on Haswell architecture while the 906EC is based on Coffee Lake.

Using the multithread performance as a reference, the i5-4590 gets a score of 144.8 k points while the 906EC gets 494.2 k points.

Summarizing, the 906EC is 3.4 times faster than the i5-4590 . To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.

Specs
CPUID
306c3
906ec
Core
Haswell
Coffee Lake-S
Architecture
Base frecuency
3.3 GHz
2.1 GHz
Boost frecuency
3.7 GHz
4.3 GHz
Socket
LGA 1150
LGA 1151
Cores/Threads
4/4
8/16
TDP
84 W
- W
Cache L1 (d+i)
4x32+4x32 kB
8x32+8x32 kB
Cache L2
4x256 kB
8x256 kB
Cache L3
6144 kB
16384 kB
Date
June 2014
January 2019
Mean monothread perf.
41.76k points
70.55k points
Mean multithread perf.
144.76k points
494.24k points

AVX2 optimized benchmark
The benchmark in mode III (AVX2), like AVX1, is optimized to used 256 bits registers beside the second version of the Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX). The first AVX2 compatible CPU was released in 2013.
Monothread
i5-4590
906EC
Test#1 (Integers)
21.17k
28.3k (x1.34)
Test#2 (FP)
11.52k
24.99k (x2.17)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
4.75k
5.55k (x1.17)
Test#1 (Memory)
4.32k
11.71k (x2.71)
TOTAL
41.76k
70.55k (x1.69)

Multithread

i5-4590

906EC
Test#1 (Integers)
77.73k
229.27k (x2.95)
Test#2 (FP)
42.15k
209.21k (x4.96)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
17.41k
48.53k (x2.79)
Test#1 (Memory)
7.47k
7.23k (x0.97)
TOTAL
144.76k
494.24k (x3.41)

Performance/W
i5-4590
906EC
Test#1 (Integers)
925 points/W