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Engineering Sample 906EC vs Ryzen 5 5600X


Description
The 906EC is based on Coffee Lake architecture while the 5600X is based on Zen 3.

Using the multithread performance as a reference, the 906EC gets a score of 494.2 k points while the 5600X gets 435.1 k points.

Summarizing, the 906EC is 1.1 times faster than the 5600X. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.

Specs
CPUID
906ec
a20f10
Core
Coffee Lake-S
Vermeer
Architecture
Base frecuency
2.1 GHz
3.7 GHz
Boost frecuency
4.3 GHz
4.6 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
November 2020
Mean monothread perf.
70.55k points
86.03k points
Mean multithread perf.
494.24k points
435.05k 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
5600X
Test#1 (Integers)
28.3k
23.28k (x0.82)
Test#2 (FP)
24.99k
25.58k (x1.02)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
5.55k
11.72k (x2.11)
Test#1 (Memory)
11.71k
25.45k (x2.17)
TOTAL
70.55k
86.03k (x1.22)

Multithread

906EC

5600X
Test#1 (Integers)
229.27k
135.28k (x0.59)
Test#2 (FP)
209.21k
180.56k (x0.86)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
48.53k
80.27k (x1.65)
Test#1 (Memory)
7.23k
38.94k (x5.38)
TOTAL
494.24k
435.05k (x0.88)

Performance/W
906EC
5600X
Test#1 (Integers)