Engineering Sample 506E8 vs Xeon Silver 4208
Description
The 506E8 is based on Kaby Lake architecture while the Silver 4208 is based on Cascade Lake.
Using the multithread performance as a reference, the 506E8 gets a score of 211.6 k points while the Silver 4208 gets 311.6 k points.
Summarizing, the Silver 4208 is 1.5 times faster than the 506E8. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.
Using the multithread performance as a reference, the 506E8 gets a score of 211.6 k points while the Silver 4208 gets 311.6 k points.
Summarizing, the Silver 4208 is 1.5 times faster than the 506E8. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.
Specs
CPUID
506e8
50657
Core
Kaby Lake
Cascade Lake-SP
Base frecuency
2.4 GHz
2.1 GHz
Boost frecuency
3.7 GHz
3.2 GHz
Socket
LGA 1151
LGA 3647
Cores/Threads
4/8
8/16
TDP
- W
85 W
Cache L1 (d+i)
4x32+4x32 kB
8x32+8x32 kB
Cache L2
4x256 kB
8x1024 kB
Cache L3
8192 kB
11264 kB
Date
June 2016
April 2019
Mean monothread perf.
56.39k points
38.61k points
Mean multithread perf.
211.6k points
311.57k 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
Silver 4208
Test#1 (Integers)
23.91k
16.86k (x0.71)
Test#2 (FP)
21.03k
12.08k (x0.57)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
5.05k
3.37k (x0.67)
Test#1 (Memory)
6.4k
6.29k (x0.98)
TOTAL
56.39k
38.61k (x0.68)
Multithread
506E8
Silver 4208
Test#1 (Integers)
95.3k
150.99k (x1.58)
Test#2 (FP)
91.94k
118.54k (x1.29)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
22.06k
33.44k (x1.52)
Test#1 (Memory)
2.3k
8.6k (x3.74)
TOTAL
211.6k
311.57k (x1.47)
Performance/W
506E8
Silver 4208
Test#1 (Integers)