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Engineering Sample 906EC vs Ryzen 5 3500X


Description
The 906EC is based on Coffee Lake architecture while the 3500X is based on Zen 2.

Using the multithread performance as a reference, the 906EC gets a score of 494.2 k points while the 3500X gets 373.6 k points.

Summarizing, the 906EC is 1.3 times faster than the 3500X. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.

Specs
CPUID
906ec
870f10
Core
Coffee Lake-S
Matisse
Architecture
Base frecuency
2.1 GHz
3.6 GHz
Boost frecuency
4.3 GHz
4.1 GHz
Socket
LGA 1151
AM4
Cores/Threads
8/16
6/12
TDP
- W
65 W
Cache L1 (d+i)
8x32+8x32 kB
6x32+6x32 kB
Cache L2
8x256 kB
6x512 kB
Cache L3
16384 kB
32768 kB
Date
January 2019
September 2019
Mean monothread perf.
70.55k points
66.61k points
Mean multithread perf.
494.24k points
373.61k 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
3500X
Test#1 (Integers)
28.3k
15.48k (x0.55)
Test#2 (FP)
24.99k
22.91k (x0.92)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
5.55k
7.1k (x1.28)
Test#1 (Memory)
11.71k
21.11k (x1.8)
TOTAL
70.55k
66.61k (x0.94)

Multithread

906EC

3500X
Test#1 (Integers)
229.27k
90.39k (x0.39)
Test#2 (FP)
209.21k
139.1k (x0.66)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
48.53k
53.2k (x1.1)
Test#1 (Memory)
7.23k
90.92k (x12.57)
TOTAL
494.24k
373.61k (x0.76)

Performance/W
906EC
3500X
Test#1 (Integers)