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Engineering Sample 506E8 vs Xeon E5-2620 v4


Description
The 506E8 is based on Kaby Lake architecture while the E5-2620 v4 is based on Broadwell.

Using the multithread performance as a reference, the 506E8 gets a score of 211.6 k points while the E5-2620 v4 gets 237.8 k points.

Summarizing, the E5-2620 v4 is 1.1 times faster than the 506E8. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.

Specs
CPUID
506e8
406f1
Core
Kaby Lake
Broadwell-EP
Architecture
Base frecuency
2.4 GHz
2.1 GHz
Boost frecuency
3.7 GHz
3 GHz
Socket
LGA 1151
Socket 2011-3
Cores/Threads
4/8
8/16
TDP
- W
85 W
Cache L1 (d+i)
4x32+4x32 kB
8x32+8x32 kB
Cache L2
4x256 kB
8x256 kB
Cache L3
8192 kB
20480 kB
Date
June 2016
March 2016
Mean monothread perf.
56.39k points
29.39k points
Mean multithread perf.
211.6k points
237.83k 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
E5-2620 v4
Test#1 (Integers)
23.91k
12.16k (x0.51)
Test#2 (FP)
21.03k
11.82k (x0.56)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
5.05k
3.02k (x0.6)
Test#1 (Memory)
6.4k
2.4k (x0.37)
TOTAL
56.39k
29.39k (x0.52)

Multithread

506E8

E5-2620 v4
Test#1 (Integers)
95.3k
103.77k (x1.09)
Test#2 (FP)
91.94k
102.28k (x1.11)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
22.06k
26.13k (x1.18)
Test#1 (Memory)
2.3k
5.65k (x2.45)
TOTAL
211.6k
237.83k (x1.12)

Performance/W
506E8
E5-2620 v4
Test#1 (Integers)