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Engineering Sample 506E8 vs Core i7-6500U


Description
The 506E8 is based on Kaby Lake architecture while the i7-6500U is based on Skylake.

Using the multithread performance as a reference, the 506E8 gets a score of 211.6 k points while the i7-6500U gets 97.5 k points.

Summarizing, the 506E8 is 2.2 times faster than the i7-6500U. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.

Specs
CPUID
506e8
406e3
Core
Kaby Lake
Skylake-U
Architecture
Base frecuency
2.4 GHz
2.5 GHz
Boost frecuency
3.7 GHz
3.1 GHz
Socket
LGA 1151
BGA1356
Cores/Threads
4/8
2/4
TDP
- W
15 W
Cache L1 (d+i)
4x32+4x32 kB
2x32+2x32 kB
Cache L2
4x256 kB
4096 kB
Cache L3
8192 kB
kB
Date
June 2016
September 2015
Mean monothread perf.
56.39k points
46.25k points
Mean multithread perf.
211.6k points
97.52k 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
i7-6500U
Test#1 (Integers)
23.91k
19.47k (x0.81)
Test#2 (FP)
21.03k
17.58k (x0.84)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
5.05k
4.05k (x0.8)
Test#1 (Memory)
6.4k
5.15k (x0.81)
TOTAL
56.39k
46.25k (x0.82)

Multithread

506E8

i7-6500U
Test#1 (Integers)
95.3k
42.05k (x0.44)
Test#2 (FP)
91.94k
40.2k (x0.44)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
22.06k
9.4k (x0.43)
Test#1 (Memory)
2.3k
5.86k (x2.55)
TOTAL
211.6k
97.52k (x0.46)

Performance/W
506E8
i7-6500U
Test#1 (Integers)