Engineering Sample 906EC vs Core i7-6500U
Description
The 906EC is based on Coffee Lake architecture while the i7-6500U is based on Skylake.
Using the multithread performance as a reference, the 906EC gets a score of 494.2 k points while the i7-6500U gets 97.5 k points.
Summarizing, the 906EC is 5.1 times faster than the i7-6500U. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.
Using the multithread performance as a reference, the 906EC gets a score of 494.2 k points while the i7-6500U gets 97.5 k points.
Summarizing, the 906EC is 5.1 times faster than the i7-6500U. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.
Specs
CPUID
906ec
406e3
Core
Coffee Lake-S
Skylake-U
Base frecuency
2.1 GHz
2.5 GHz
Boost frecuency
4.3 GHz
3.1 GHz
Socket
LGA 1151
BGA1356
Cores/Threads
8/16
2/4
TDP
- W
15 W
Cache L1 (d+i)
8x32+8x32 kB
2x32+2x32 kB
Cache L2
8x256 kB
4096 kB
Cache L3
16384 kB
kB
Date
January 2019
September 2015
Mean monothread perf.
70.55k points
46.25k points
Mean multithread perf.
494.24k points
97.52k 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
i7-6500U
Test#1 (Integers)
28.3k
19.47k (x0.69)
Test#2 (FP)
24.99k
17.58k (x0.7)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
5.55k
4.05k (x0.73)
Test#1 (Memory)
11.71k
5.15k (x0.44)
TOTAL
70.55k
46.25k (x0.66)
Multithread
906EC
i7-6500U
Test#1 (Integers)
229.27k
42.05k (x0.18)
Test#2 (FP)
209.21k
40.2k (x0.19)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
48.53k
9.4k (x0.19)
Test#1 (Memory)
7.23k
5.86k (x0.81)
TOTAL
494.24k
97.52k (x0.2)
Performance/W
906EC
i7-6500U
Test#1 (Integers)