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Core i5-4590 vs Engineering Sample 906ED 2.1GHz


Description
The i5-4590 is based on Haswell architecture while the 906ED 2.1GHz is based on Comet Lake.

Using the multithread performance as a reference, the i5-4590 gets a score of 144.8 k points while the 906ED 2.1GHz gets 657.2 k points.

Summarizing, the 906ED 2.1GHz is 4.5 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
906ed
Core
Haswell
Comet Lake-H
Architecture
Base frecuency
3.3 GHz
3.6 GHz
Boost frecuency
3.7 GHz
5 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
March 2020
Mean monothread perf.
41.76k points
86.65k points
Mean multithread perf.
144.76k points
657.19k 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
906ED 2.1GHz
Test#1 (Integers)
21.17k
33.92k (x1.6)
Test#2 (FP)
11.52k
30k (x2.6)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
4.75k
7.01k (x1.48)
Test#1 (Memory)
4.32k
15.73k (x3.64)
TOTAL
41.76k
86.65k (x2.07)

Multithread

i5-4590

906ED 2.1GHz
Test#1 (Integers)
77.73k
302.78k (x3.9)
Test#2 (FP)
42.15k
278.98k (x6.62)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
17.41k
67.89k (x3.9)
Test#1 (Memory)
7.47k
7.53k (x1.01)
TOTAL
144.76k
657.19k (x4.54)

Performance/W
i5-4590
906ED 2.1GHz
Test#1 (Integers)
925 points/W