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Core i5-12400 vs Engineering Sample 906EC


Description
The i5-12400 is based on Alder Lake architecture while the 906EC is based on Coffee Lake.

Using the multithread performance as a reference, the i5-12400 gets a score of 544.6 k points while the 906EC gets 494.2 k points.

Summarizing, the i5-12400 is 1.1 times faster than the 906EC. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.

Specs
CPUID
90672
906ec
Core
Arder Lake-S
Coffee Lake-S
Architecture
Base frecuency
2.5 GHz
2.1 GHz
Boost frecuency
4.4 GHz
4.3 GHz
Socket
LGA 1700
LGA 1151
Cores/Threads
6/12
8/16
TDP
65 W
- W
Cache L1 (d+i)
6x32+6x48 kB
8x32+8x32 kB
Cache L2
6x1280 kB
8x256 kB
Cache L3
18432 kB
16384 kB
Date
January 2022
January 2019
Mean monothread perf.
102.51k points
70.55k points
Mean multithread perf.
544.64k 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
i5-12400
906EC
Test#1 (Integers)
48.08k
28.3k (x0.59)
Test#2 (FP)
25.6k
24.99k (x0.98)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
14.02k
5.55k (x0.4)
Test#1 (Memory)
14.81k
11.71k (x0.79)
TOTAL
102.51k
70.55k (x0.69)

Multithread

i5-12400

906EC
Test#1 (Integers)
230.14k
229.27k (x1)
Test#2 (FP)
198.07k
209.21k (x1.06)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
94.78k
48.53k (x0.51)
Test#1 (Memory)
21.64k
7.23k (x0.33)
TOTAL
544.64k
494.24k (x0.91)

Performance/W
i5-12400
906EC
Test#1 (Integers)
3541 points/W