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Engineering Sample 506E8 vs Ryzen 5 1600


Description
The 506E8 is based on Kaby Lake architecture while the 1600 is based on Zen.

Using the multithread performance as a reference, the 506E8 gets a score of 211.6 k points while the 1600 gets 272.8 k points.

Summarizing, the 1600 is 1.3 times faster than the 506E8. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.

Specs
CPUID
506e8
800f11
Core
Kaby Lake
Summit Ridge
Architecture
Base frecuency
2.4 GHz
3.2 GHz
Boost frecuency
3.7 GHz
3.6 GHz
Socket
LGA 1151
AM4
Cores/Threads
4/8
6/12
TDP
- W
65 W
Cache L1 (d+i)
4x32+4x32 kB
6x64+6x32 kB
Cache L2
4x256 kB
6x512 kB
Cache L3
8192 kB
2x8192 kB
Date
June 2016
April 2017
Mean monothread perf.
56.39k points
56.16k points
Mean multithread perf.
211.6k points
272.8k 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
506E8
1600
Test#1 (Integers)
23.91k
13.67k (x0.57)
Test#2 (FP)
21.03k
22.28k (x1.06)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
5.05k
4.99k (x0.99)
Test#1 (Memory)
6.4k
15.22k (x2.38)
TOTAL
56.39k
56.16k (x1)

Multithread

506E8

1600
Test#1 (Integers)
95.3k
81.03k (x0.85)
Test#2 (FP)
91.94k
145.84k (x1.59)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
22.06k
39.14k (x1.77)
Test#1 (Memory)
2.3k
6.79k (x2.95)
TOTAL
211.6k
272.8k (x1.29)

Performance/W
506E8
1600
Test#1 (Integers)