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Engineering Sample 506E8 3GHz vs Core i5-8259U


Description
The 506E8 3GHz is based on Kaby Lake architecture while the i5-8259U is based on Coffee Lake.

Using the multithread performance as a reference, the 506E8 3GHz gets a score of 210.9 k points while the i5-8259U gets 229 k points.

Summarizing, the i5-8259U is 1.1 times faster than the 506E8 3GHz. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.

Specs
CPUID
506e8
806ea
Core
Kaby Lake
Coffee Lake-U
Architecture
Base frecuency
3 GHz
2.3 GHz
Boost frecuency
3.5 GHz
3.8 GHz
Socket
LGA 1151
BGA 1528
Cores/Threads
4/8
4/8
TDP
- W
28 W
Cache L1 (d+i)
4x32+4x32 kB
4x32+x4x32 kB
Cache L2
4x256 kB
4x256 kB
Cache L3
8192 kB
6144 kB
Date
June 2016
March 2018
Mean monothread perf.
58.05k points
54.55k points
Mean multithread perf.
210.91k points
229k 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 3GHz
i5-8259U
Test#1 (Integers)
22.46k
21.06k (x0.94)
Test#2 (FP)
20.45k
19.79k (x0.97)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
4.75k
4.72k (x0.99)
Test#1 (Memory)
10.39k
8.98k (x0.86)
TOTAL
58.05k
54.55k (x0.94)

Multithread

506E8 3GHz

i5-8259U
Test#1 (Integers)
92.69k
96.43k (x1.04)
Test#2 (FP)
90.45k
85.46k (x0.94)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
22.02k
22.31k (x1.01)
Test#1 (Memory)
5.75k
24.81k (x4.32)
TOTAL
210.91k
229k (x1.09)

Performance/W
506E8 3GHz
i5-8259U
Test#1 (Integers)