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Engineering Sample 506E8 vs Core i7-4790K


Description
The 506E8 is based on Kaby Lake architecture while the i7-4790K is based on Haswell.

Using the multithread performance as a reference, the 506E8 gets a score of 211.6 k points while the i7-4790K gets 215.5 k points.

Summarizing, the i7-4790K is 1 times faster than the 506E8. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.

Specs
CPUID
506e8
306c3
Core
Kaby Lake
Haswell
Architecture
Base frecuency
2.4 GHz
4 GHz
Boost frecuency
3.7 GHz
4.4 GHz
Socket
LGA 1151
LGA 1150
Cores/Threads
4/8
4/8
TDP
- W
88 W
Cache L1 (d+i)
4x32+4x32 kB
32+32 kB
Cache L2
4x256 kB
256 kB
Cache L3
8192 kB
8192 kB
Date
June 2016
May 2014
Mean monothread perf.
56.39k points
52.47k points
Mean multithread perf.
211.6k points
215.47k 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
i7-4790K
Test#1 (Integers)
23.91k
26.16k (x1.09)
Test#2 (FP)
21.03k
14.78k (x0.7)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
5.05k
6.01k (x1.19)
Test#1 (Memory)
6.4k
5.52k (x0.86)
TOTAL
56.39k
52.47k (x0.93)

Multithread

506E8

i7-4790K
Test#1 (Integers)
95.3k
107.76k (x1.13)
Test#2 (FP)
91.94k
70.84k (x0.77)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
22.06k
27.99k (x1.27)
Test#1 (Memory)
2.3k
8.87k (x3.86)
TOTAL
211.6k
215.47k (x1.02)

Performance/W
506E8
i7-4790K
Test#1 (Integers)