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Engineering Sample 906EC vs Core i5-10400F


Description
The 906EC is based on Coffee Lake architecture while the i5-10400F is based on Comet Lake.

Using the multithread performance as a reference, the 906EC gets a score of 494.2 k points while the i5-10400F gets 390.8 k points.

Summarizing, the 906EC is 1.3 times faster than the i5-10400F. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.

Specs
CPUID
906ec
a0655
Core
Coffee Lake-S
Comet Lake-S
Architecture
Base frecuency
2.1 GHz
2.9 GHz
Boost frecuency
4.3 GHz
4.3 GHz
Socket
LGA 1151
LGA 1200
Cores/Threads
8/16
6/12
TDP
- W
65 W
Cache L1 (d+i)
8x32+8x32 kB
6x32+6x32 kB
Cache L2
8x256 kB
6x256 kB
Cache L3
16384 kB
16386 kB
Date
January 2019
May 2020
Mean monothread perf.
70.55k points
72.25k points
Mean multithread perf.
494.24k points
390.78k 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
i5-10400F
Test#1 (Integers)
28.3k
28.39k (x1)
Test#2 (FP)
24.99k
24.89k (x1)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
5.55k
5.78k (x1.04)
Test#1 (Memory)
11.71k
13.19k (x1.13)
TOTAL
70.55k
72.25k (x1.02)

Multithread

906EC

i5-10400F
Test#1 (Integers)
229.27k
180.2k (x0.79)
Test#2 (FP)
209.21k
163.51k (x0.78)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
48.53k
40.6k (x0.84)
Test#1 (Memory)
7.23k
6.48k (x0.9)
TOTAL
494.24k
390.78k (x0.79)

Performance/W
906EC
i5-10400F
Test#1 (Integers)