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Engineering Sample 906EC vs Core i5-12400


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

Using the multithread performance as a reference, the 906EC gets a score of 494.2 k points while the i5-12400 gets 544.6 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
906ec
90672
Core
Coffee Lake-S
Arder Lake-S
Architecture
Base frecuency
2.1 GHz
2.5 GHz
Boost frecuency
4.3 GHz
4.4 GHz
Socket
LGA 1151
LGA 1700
Cores/Threads
8/16
6/12
TDP
- W
65 W
Cache L1 (d+i)
8x32+8x32 kB
6x32+6x48 kB
Cache L2
8x256 kB
6x1280 kB
Cache L3
16384 kB
18432 kB
Date
January 2019
January 2022
Mean monothread perf.
70.55k points
102.51k points
Mean multithread perf.
494.24k points
544.64k 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
i5-12400
Test#1 (Integers)
28.3k
48.08k (x1.7)
Test#2 (FP)
24.99k
25.6k (x1.02)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
5.55k
14.02k (x2.53)
Test#1 (Memory)
11.71k
14.81k (x1.26)
TOTAL
70.55k
102.51k (x1.45)

Multithread

906EC

i5-12400
Test#1 (Integers)
229.27k
230.14k (x1)
Test#2 (FP)
209.21k
198.07k (x0.95)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
48.53k
94.78k (x1.95)
Test#1 (Memory)
7.23k
21.64k (x2.99)
TOTAL
494.24k
544.64k (x1.1)

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