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Engineering Sample 906EC vs Core i7-8565U


Description
The 906EC is based on Coffee Lake architecture while the i7-8565U is based on Whiskey Lake.

Using the multithread performance as a reference, the 906EC gets a score of 494.2 k points while the i7-8565U gets 142.5 k points.

Summarizing, the 906EC is 3.5 times faster than the i7-8565U. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.

Specs
CPUID
906ec
806eb
Core
Coffee Lake-S
Whiskey Lake-U
Architecture
Base frecuency
2.1 GHz
1.8 GHz
Boost frecuency
4.3 GHz
4.6 GHz
Socket
LGA 1151
BGA 1528
Cores/Threads
8/16
4/8
TDP
- W
15 W
Cache L1 (d+i)
8x32+8x32 kB
4x32+4x32 kB
Cache L2
8x256 kB
4x256 kB
Cache L3
16384 kB
8192 kB
Date
January 2019
August 2018
Mean monothread perf.
70.55k points
67.83k points
Mean multithread perf.
494.24k points
142.55k 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
i7-8565U
Test#1 (Integers)
28.3k
27.2k (x0.96)
Test#2 (FP)
24.99k
23.47k (x0.94)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
5.55k
4.91k (x0.88)
Test#1 (Memory)
11.71k
12.25k (x1.05)
TOTAL
70.55k
67.83k (x0.96)

Multithread

906EC

i7-8565U
Test#1 (Integers)
229.27k
64.33k (x0.28)
Test#2 (FP)
209.21k
58.47k (x0.28)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
48.53k
15.82k (x0.33)
Test#1 (Memory)
7.23k
3.93k (x0.54)
TOTAL
494.24k
142.55k (x0.29)

Performance/W
906EC
i7-8565U
Test#1 (Integers)