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Engineering Sample 906EC vs Ryzen 5 1600X


Description
The 906EC is based on Coffee Lake architecture while the 1600X is based on Zen.

Using the multithread performance as a reference, the 906EC gets a score of 494.2 k points while the 1600X gets 173.2 k points.

Summarizing, the 906EC is 2.9 times faster than the 1600X. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.

Specs
CPUID
906ec
800f11
Core
Coffee Lake-S
Summit Ridge
Architecture
Base frecuency
2.1 GHz
3.6 GHz
Boost frecuency
4.3 GHz
4 GHz
Socket
LGA 1151
AM4
Cores/Threads
8/16
6/12
TDP
- W
95 W
Cache L1 (d+i)
8x32+8x32 kB
6x64+6x32 kB
Cache L2
8x256 kB
6x512 kB
Cache L3
16384 kB
2x8192 kB
Date
January 2019
April 2017
Mean monothread perf.
70.55k points
60.09k points
Mean multithread perf.
494.24k points
173.2k 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
1600X
Test#1 (Integers)
28.3k
14.63k (x0.52)
Test#2 (FP)
24.99k
24.09k (x0.96)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
5.55k
5.51k (x0.99)
Test#1 (Memory)
11.71k
15.86k (x1.35)
TOTAL
70.55k
60.09k (x0.85)

Multithread

906EC

1600X
Test#1 (Integers)
229.27k
48.75k (x0.21)
Test#2 (FP)
209.21k
80.1k (x0.38)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
48.53k
24.5k (x0.5)
Test#1 (Memory)
7.23k
19.85k (x2.75)
TOTAL
494.24k
173.2k (x0.35)

Performance/W
906EC
1600X
Test#1 (Integers)