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Engineering Sample 906EC vs Ryzen 7 1700X


Description
The 906EC is based on Coffee Lake architecture while the 1700X is based on Zen.

Using the multithread performance as a reference, the 906EC gets a score of 494.2 k points while the 1700X gets 372.7 k points.

Summarizing, the 906EC is 1.3 times faster than the 1700X. 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
3.4 GHz
Boost frecuency
4.3 GHz
3.8 GHz
Socket
LGA 1151
AM4
Cores/Threads
8/16
8/16
TDP
- W
95 W
Cache L1 (d+i)
8x32+8x32 kB
8x64+8x32 kB
Cache L2
8x256 kB
8x512 kB
Cache L3
16384 kB
2x8192 kB
Date
January 2019
March 2017
Mean monothread perf.
70.55k points
56.76k points
Mean multithread perf.
494.24k points
372.73k 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
1700X
Test#1 (Integers)
28.3k
13.72k (x0.48)
Test#2 (FP)
24.99k
22.48k (x0.9)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
5.55k
5.12k (x0.92)
Test#1 (Memory)
11.71k
15.44k (x1.32)
TOTAL
70.55k
56.76k (x0.8)

Multithread

906EC

1700X
Test#1 (Integers)
229.27k
110.92k (x0.48)
Test#2 (FP)
209.21k
200.56k (x0.96)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
48.53k
54.24k (x1.12)
Test#1 (Memory)
7.23k
7.01k (x0.97)
TOTAL
494.24k
372.73k (x0.75)

Performance/W
906EC
1700X
Test#1 (Integers)