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Xeon w3-2423 vs Engineering Sample 906EC


Description
The w3-2423 is based on Sapphire Rapids architecture while the 906EC is based on Coffee Lake.

Using the multithread performance as a reference, the w3-2423 gets a score of 254.3 k points while the 906EC gets 494.2 k points.

Summarizing, the 906EC is 1.9 times faster than the w3-2423. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.

Specs
CPUID
806f8
906ec
Core
Sapphire Rapids-64L
Coffee Lake-S
Architecture
Sapphire Rapids
Base frecuency
2.1 GHz
2.1 GHz
Boost frecuency
4.2 GHz
4.3 GHz
Socket
LGA 4677
LGA 1151
Cores/Threads
6/12
8/16
TDP
120 W
- W
Cache L1 (d+i)
6x32+6x48 kB
8x32+8x32 kB
Cache L2
6x2048 kB
8x256 kB
Cache L3
15360 kB
16384 kB
Date
February 2023
January 2019
Mean monothread perf.
46.97k points
70.55k points
Mean multithread perf.
254.28k points
494.24k 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
w3-2423
906EC
Test#1 (Integers)
21.46k
28.3k (x1.32)
Test#2 (FP)
12.28k
24.99k (x2.04)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
6.33k
5.55k (x0.88)
Test#1 (Memory)
6.9k
11.71k (x1.7)
TOTAL
46.97k
70.55k (x1.5)

Multithread

w3-2423

906EC
Test#1 (Integers)
97.83k
229.27k (x2.34)
Test#2 (FP)
100.83k
209.21k (x2.07)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
46.56k
48.53k (x1.04)
Test#1 (Memory)
9.06k
7.23k (x0.8)
TOTAL
254.28k
494.24k (x1.94)

Performance/W
w3-2423
906EC
Test#1 (Integers)
815 points/W