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Engineering Sample 506E8 vs Core i7-8665U


Description
The 506E8 is based on Kaby Lake architecture while the i7-8665U is based on Whiskey Lake.

Using the multithread performance as a reference, the 506E8 gets a score of 211.6 k points while the i7-8665U gets 129.1 k points.

Summarizing, the 506E8 is 1.6 times faster than the i7-8665U. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.

Specs
CPUID
506e8
806ec
Core
Kaby Lake
Whiskey Lake-U
Architecture
Base frecuency
2.4 GHz
1.9 GHz
Boost frecuency
3.7 GHz
4.8 GHz
Socket
LGA 1151
BGA 1528
Cores/Threads
4/8
4/8
TDP
- W
15 W
Cache L1 (d+i)
4x32+4x32 kB
4x32+4x32 kB
Cache L2
4x256 kB
4x256 kB
Cache L3
8192 kB
8192 kB
Date
June 2016
April 2019
Mean monothread perf.
56.39k points
45k points
Mean multithread perf.
211.6k points
129.06k 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
506E8
i7-8665U
Test#1 (Integers)
23.91k
18.4k (x0.77)
Test#2 (FP)
21.03k
16.78k (x0.8)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
5.05k
3.61k (x0.72)
Test#1 (Memory)
6.4k
6.21k (x0.97)
TOTAL
56.39k
45k (x0.8)

Multithread

506E8

i7-8665U
Test#1 (Integers)
95.3k
57.09k (x0.6)
Test#2 (FP)
91.94k
54.43k (x0.59)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
22.06k
12.23k (x0.55)
Test#1 (Memory)
2.3k
5.31k (x2.31)
TOTAL
211.6k
129.06k (x0.61)

Performance/W
506E8
i7-8665U
Test#1 (Integers)