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Engineering Sample 906ED 2.1GHz vs Xeon E3-1220 v3


Description
The 906ED 2.1GHz is based on Comet Lake architecture while the E3-1220 v3 is based on Haswell.

Using the multithread performance as a reference, the 906ED 2.1GHz gets a score of 657.2 k points while the E3-1220 v3 gets 140.8 k points.

Summarizing, the 906ED 2.1GHz is 4.7 times faster than the E3-1220 v3 . To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.

Specs
CPUID
906ed
306c3
Core
Comet Lake-H
Haswell-WS
Architecture
Base frecuency
3.6 GHz
3.1 GHz
Boost frecuency
5 GHz
3.5 GHz
Socket
LGA 1151
LGA 1150
Cores/Threads
8/16
4 /4
TDP
- W
80 W
Cache L1 (d+i)
8x32+8x32 kB
64 kB
Cache L2
8x256 kB
256 kB
Cache L3
16384 kB
8192 kB
Date
March 2020
June 2013
Mean monothread perf.
86.65k points
39.16k points
Mean multithread perf.
657.19k points
140.76k points

Non-optimized benchmark
The benchmark in Mode 0 (FPU) measures cpu performance with non-optimized software. It uses the basic µinstructions from the i386 architecture with the i387 floating point unit. This mode is compatible with all CPUs so it's practical to compare very different CPUs
Monothread
906ED 2.1GHz
E3-1220 v3
Test#1 (Integers)
5.2k
3.45k (x0.66)
Test#2 (FP)
21.19k
9.96k (x0.47)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
6.85k
4.26k (x0.62)
Test#1 (Memory)
15.48k
4.27k (x0.28)
TOTAL
48.71k
21.94k (x0.45)

Multithread

906ED 2.1GHz

E3-1220 v3
Test#1 (Integers)
42.31k
14.01k (x0.33)
Test#2 (FP)
198.07k
37.68k (x0.19)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
68.37k
17.05k (x0.25)
Test#1 (Memory)
7.38k
7.35k (x1)
TOTAL
316.12k
76.09k (x0.24)

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
906ED 2.1GHz
E3-1220 v3
Test#1 (Integers)
33.92k
19.17k (x0.57)
Test#2 (FP)
30k
10.55k (x0.35)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
7.01k
4.79k (x0.68)
Test#1 (Memory)
15.73k
4.65k (x0.3)
TOTAL
86.65k
39.16k (x0.45)

Multithread

906ED 2.1GHz

E3-1220 v3
Test#1 (Integers)
302.78k
73.13k (x0.24)
Test#2 (FP)
278.98k
42.06k (x0.15)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
67.89k
18.03k (x0.27)
Test#1 (Memory)
7.53k
7.54k (x1)
TOTAL
657.19k
140.76k (x0.21)

Performance/W
906ED 2.1GHz
E3-1220 v3
Test#1 (Integers)