Engineering Sample 906EC vs Core i3-8350K

Both models 906EC and i3-8350K are based on Coffee Lake architecture.

Coffee Lake is the second refinement of Intel’s 14nm (Tri-Gate) technology. While it uses LGA1151 socket, it is incompatible with previous generations due to electrical changes in socket’s pins so these CPUs require Z370 chipset. This kind of generation introduced more cores in every range to compete with new AMD’s architecture. Coffee Lake uses DDR4 memory at 2400MHz for i3 and at 2666MHz for i5, i7 CPUs plus iGPU frequency has been increased 50MHz with respect to previous generation.

Using the multithread performance as a reference, the 906EC gets a score of 494.2 k points while the i3-8350K gets 237.6 k points.

Summarizing, the 906EC is 2.1 times faster than the i3-8350K. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.