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Engineering Sample 906EC vs Core i5-1235U


Description
The 906EC is based on Coffee Lake architecture while the i5-1235U is based on Alder Lake.

Using the multithread performance as a reference, the 906EC gets a score of 494.2 k points while the i5-1235U gets 297.5 k points.

Summarizing, the 906EC is 1.7 times faster than the i5-1235U. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.

Specs
CPUID
906ec
906a4
Core
Coffee Lake-S
Alder Lake-U
Architecture
Base frecuency
2.1 GHz
3.3 GHz
Boost frecuency
4.3 GHz
4.4 GHz
Socket
LGA 1151
BGA 1700
Cores/Threads
8/16
10/12
TDP
- W
15 W
Cache L1 (d+i)
8x32+8x32 kB
2x32/8x64+2x48/8x32 kB
Cache L2
8x256 kB
1x1280+4x2048 kB
Cache L3
16384 kB
12288 kB
Date
January 2019
April 2022
Mean monothread perf.
70.55k points
81.64k points
Mean multithread perf.
494.24k points
297.46k 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
i5-1235U
Test#1 (Integers)
28.3k
36.73k (x1.3)
Test#2 (FP)
24.99k
22.09k (x0.88)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
5.55k
11.24k (x2.02)
Test#1 (Memory)
11.71k
11.58k (x0.99)
TOTAL
70.55k
81.64k (x1.16)

Multithread

906EC

i5-1235U
Test#1 (Integers)
229.27k
130.18k (x0.57)
Test#2 (FP)
209.21k
110.21k (x0.53)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
48.53k
50.76k (x1.05)
Test#1 (Memory)
7.23k
6.31k (x0.87)
TOTAL
494.24k
297.46k (x0.6)

Performance/W
906EC
i5-1235U
Test#1 (Integers)