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Engineering Sample 906EC vs Core i7-7700


Description
The 906EC is based on Coffee Lake architecture while the i7-7700 is based on Kaby Lake.

Using the multithread performance as a reference, the 906EC gets a score of 494.2 k points while the i7-7700 gets 257.5 k points.

Summarizing, the 906EC is 1.9 times faster than the i7-7700 . To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.

Specs
CPUID
906ec
906e9
Core
Coffee Lake-S
Kaby Lake-S
Architecture
Base frecuency
2.1 GHz
3.6 GHz
Boost frecuency
4.3 GHz
4.2 GHz
Socket
LGA 1151
LGA 1151
Cores/Threads
8/16
4/8
TDP
- W
65 W
Cache L1 (d+i)
8x32+8x32 kB
32+32 kB
Cache L2
8x256 kB
256 kB
Cache L3
16384 kB
8192 kB
Date
January 2019
September 2016
Mean monothread perf.
70.55k points
67.33k points
Mean multithread perf.
494.24k points
257.52k 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
i7-7700
Test#1 (Integers)
28.3k
26.7k (x0.94)
Test#2 (FP)
24.99k
23.7k (x0.95)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
5.55k
5.46k (x0.98)
Test#1 (Memory)
11.71k
11.48k (x0.98)
TOTAL
70.55k
67.33k (x0.95)

Multithread

906EC

i7-7700
Test#1 (Integers)
229.27k
115.97k (x0.51)
Test#2 (FP)
209.21k
108.43k (x0.52)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
48.53k
26.28k (x0.54)
Test#1 (Memory)
7.23k
6.85k (x0.95)
TOTAL
494.24k
257.52k (x0.52)

Performance/W
906EC
i7-7700
Test#1 (Integers)