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Ryzen 5 5500 vs Engineering Sample 906EC


Description
The 5500 is based on Zen 3 architecture while the 906EC is based on Coffee Lake.

Using the multithread performance as a reference, the 5500 gets a score of 373 k points while the 906EC gets 494.2 k points.

Summarizing, the 906EC is 1.3 times faster than the 5500. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.

Specs
CPUID
a50f00
906ec
Core
Cezanne
Coffee Lake-S
Architecture
Base frecuency
3.6 GHz
2.1 GHz
Boost frecuency
4.2 GHz
4.3 GHz
Socket
AM4
LGA 1151
Cores/Threads
6/12
8/16
TDP
65 W
- W
Cache L1 (d+i)
6x32+6x32 kB
8x32+8x32 kB
Cache L2
6x512 kB
8x256 kB
Cache L3
16384 kB
16384 kB
Date
April 2022
January 2019
Mean monothread perf.
80.52k points
70.55k points
Mean multithread perf.
373.05k 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
5500
906EC
Test#1 (Integers)
22.09k
28.3k (x1.28)
Test#2 (FP)
24.59k
24.99k (x1.02)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
10.94k
5.55k (x0.51)
Test#1 (Memory)
22.89k
11.71k (x0.51)
TOTAL
80.52k
70.55k (x0.88)

Multithread

5500

906EC
Test#1 (Integers)
124.44k
229.27k (x1.84)
Test#2 (FP)
167.06k
209.21k (x1.25)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
74.34k
48.53k (x0.65)
Test#1 (Memory)
7.2k
7.23k (x1)
TOTAL
373.05k
494.24k (x1.32)

Performance/W
5500
906EC
Test#1 (Integers)
1914 points/W