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Engineering Sample 906ED 2.1GHz vs Core i5-6600K


Description
The 906ED 2.1GHz is based on Comet Lake architecture while the i5-6600K is based on Skylake.

Using the multithread performance as a reference, the 906ED 2.1GHz gets a score of 499.5 k points while the i5-6600K gets 209.3 k points.

Summarizing, the 906ED 2.1GHz is 2.4 times faster than the i5-6600K . To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.

Specs
CPUID
906ed
506e3
Core
Comet Lake-H
Skylake-S
Architecture
Base frecuency
3.6 GHz
3.5 GHz
Boost frecuency
5 GHz
3.9 GHz
Socket
LGA 1151
LGA 1151
Cores/Threads
8/16
4/4
TDP
- W
95 W
Cache L1 (d+i)
8x32+8x32 kB
4x32+4x32 kB
Cache L2
8x256 kB
256 kB
Cache L3
16384 kB
6144 kB
Date
March 2020
May 2015
Mean monothread perf.
86.65k points
59.28k points
Mean multithread perf.
657.19k points
209.28k points

AVX optimized benchmark
The benchmark in mode II (AVX) is optimized to used 256 bits registers beside the first version of the Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX). The first AVX compatible CPU was released in 2011.
Monothread
906ED 2.1GHz
i5-6600K
Test#1 (Integers)
18.88k
17.24k (x0.91)
Test#2 (FP)
28.5k
26.5k (x0.93)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
6.91k
6.45k (x0.93)
Test#1 (Memory)
14.86k
9.09k (x0.61)
TOTAL
69.14k
59.28k (x0.86)

Multithread

906ED 2.1GHz

i5-6600K
Test#1 (Integers)
157.47k
68.47k (x0.43)
Test#2 (FP)
265.75k
105.05k (x0.4)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
68.86k
25.24k (x0.37)
Test#1 (Memory)
7.38k
10.5k (x1.42)
TOTAL
499.47k
209.28k (x0.42)

Performance/W
906ED 2.1GHz
i5-6600K
Test#1 (Integers)