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Engineering Sample 906EC vs Core i5-11400


Description
The 906EC is based on Coffee Lake architecture while the i5-11400 is based on Rocket Lake.

Using the multithread performance as a reference, the 906EC gets a score of 494.2 k points while the i5-11400 gets 489.3 k points.

Summarizing, the 906EC is 1 times faster than the i5-11400. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.

Specs
CPUID
906ec
a0671
Core
Coffee Lake-S
Rocket Lake-S
Architecture
Base frecuency
2.1 GHz
2.6 GHz
Boost frecuency
4.3 GHz
4.4 GHz
Socket
LGA 1151
LGA 1200
Cores/Threads
8/16
6/12
TDP
- W
65 W
Cache L1 (d+i)
8x32+8x32 kB
6x32+6x48 kB
Cache L2
8x256 kB
6x512 kB
Cache L3
16384 kB
12288 kB
Date
January 2019
March 2021
Mean monothread perf.
70.55k points
86.11k points
Mean multithread perf.
494.24k points
489.31k 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
906EC
i5-11400
Test#1 (Integers)
28.3k
31.23k (x1.1)
Test#2 (FP)
24.99k
25.88k (x1.04)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
5.55k
10.83k (x1.95)
Test#1 (Memory)
11.71k
18.17k (x1.55)
TOTAL
70.55k
86.11k (x1.22)

Multithread

906EC

i5-11400
Test#1 (Integers)
229.27k
213.85k (x0.93)
Test#2 (FP)
209.21k
195.51k (x0.93)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
48.53k
72.06k (x1.49)
Test#1 (Memory)
7.23k
7.89k (x1.09)
TOTAL
494.24k
489.31k (x0.99)

Performance/W
906EC
i5-11400
Test#1 (Integers)