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Engineering Sample 506E8 vs Ryzen 9 5900HX


Description
The 506E8 is based on Kaby Lake architecture while the 5900HX is based on Zen 3.

Using the multithread performance as a reference, the 506E8 gets a score of 211.6 k points while the 5900HX gets 421.1 k points.

Summarizing, the 5900HX is 2 times faster than the 506E8. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.

Specs
CPUID
506e8
a50f00
Core
Kaby Lake
Cezanne
Architecture
Base frecuency
2.4 GHz
3.3 GHz
Boost frecuency
3.7 GHz
4.6 GHz
Socket
LGA 1151
BGA1140-FP6
Cores/Threads
4/8
8/16
TDP
- W
45 W
Cache L1 (d+i)
4x32+4x32 kB
8x32+8x32 kB
Cache L2
4x256 kB
8x512 kB
Cache L3
8192 kB
16384 kB
Date
June 2016
January 2021
Mean monothread perf.
56.39k points
85.76k points
Mean multithread perf.
211.6k points
421.05k 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
5900HX
Test#1 (Integers)
23.91k
23.29k (x0.97)
Test#2 (FP)
21.03k
25.89k (x1.23)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
5.05k
11.75k (x2.33)
Test#1 (Memory)
6.4k
24.83k (x3.88)
TOTAL
56.39k
85.76k (x1.52)

Multithread

506E8

5900HX
Test#1 (Integers)
95.3k
138.16k (x1.45)
Test#2 (FP)
91.94k
192.12k (x2.09)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
22.06k
80.84k (x3.67)
Test#1 (Memory)
2.3k
9.93k (x4.31)
TOTAL
211.6k
421.05k (x1.99)

Performance/W
506E8
5900HX
Test#1 (Integers)