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Engineering Sample 906EC vs Xeon E5-2670 v3


Description
The 906EC is based on Coffee Lake architecture while the E5-2670 v3 is based on Haswell.

Using the multithread performance as a reference, the 906EC gets a score of 494.2 k points while the E5-2670 v3 gets 452.9 k points.

Summarizing, the 906EC is 1.1 times faster than the E5-2670 v3. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.

Specs
CPUID
906ec
306f2
Core
Coffee Lake-S
Haswell-EP
Architecture
Base frecuency
2.1 GHz
2.3 GHz
Boost frecuency
4.3 GHz
3.1 GHz
Socket
LGA 1151
LGA 2011-3
Cores/Threads
8/16
12/24
TDP
- W
120 W
Cache L1 (d+i)
8x32+8x32 kB
12x32+12x32 kB
Cache L2
8x256 kB
12x256 kB
Cache L3
16384 kB
30720 kB
Date
January 2019
September 2014
Mean monothread perf.
70.55k points
36.41k points
Mean multithread perf.
494.24k points
452.9k 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
E5-2670 v3
Test#1 (Integers)
28.3k
18.62k (x0.66)
Test#2 (FP)
24.99k
10.49k (x0.42)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
5.55k
4.04k (x0.73)
Test#1 (Memory)
11.71k
3.26k (x0.28)
TOTAL
70.55k
36.41k (x0.52)

Multithread

906EC

E5-2670 v3
Test#1 (Integers)
229.27k
236.25k (x1.03)
Test#2 (FP)
209.21k
151.05k (x0.72)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
48.53k
58.9k (x1.21)
Test#1 (Memory)
7.23k
6.7k (x0.93)
TOTAL
494.24k
452.9k (x0.92)

Performance/W
906EC
E5-2670 v3
Test#1 (Integers)