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Core i5-6400 vs Xeon Silver 4110


Description
Both models i5-6400 and 4110 are based on Skylake architecture.

Sky Lake is also known as 6th generation Core. Include Thunderbolt 3.0, SATA Express and Iris Pro graphics with DirectX 12. It uses LGA 1151 socket for mainstream models and LGA 2066 for X-Series. Sky Lake comes with AVX2 support in all mainstreams CPUs and AVX-512 in some high end models.

Using the multithread performance as a reference, the i5-6400 gets a score of 174.1 k points while the 4110 gets 281.5 k points.

Summarizing, the 4110 is 1.6 times faster than the i5-6400 . To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.

Specs
CPUID
506e3
50654
Core
Skylake-S
Skylake-SP
Architecture
Base frecuency
2.7 GHz
2.1 GHz
Boost frecuency
3.3 GHz
3 GHz
Socket
LGA 1151
LGA3647
Cores/Threads
4/4
8/16
TDP
65 W
85 W
Cache L1 (d+i)
4x32+4x32 kB
8x32+8x32 kB
Cache L2
4x256 kB
8x1024 kB
Cache L3
6144 kB
11264 kB
Date
September 2015
July 2017
Mean monothread perf.
48.05k points
45.82k points
Mean multithread perf.
174.05k points
281.48k points

Non-optimized benchmark
The benchmark in Mode 0 (FPU) measures cpu performance with non-optimized software. It uses the basic µinstructions from the i386 architecture with the i387 floating point unit. This mode is compatible with all CPUs so it's practical to compare very different CPUs
Monothread
i5-6400
4110
Test#1 (Integers)
3.2k
3k (x0.94)
Test#2 (FP)
12.81k
12.29k (x0.96)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
4.18k
3.64k (x0.87)
Test#1 (Memory)
4.3k
6.55k (x1.52)
TOTAL
24.49k
25.46k (x1.04)

Multithread

i5-6400

4110
Test#1 (Integers)
11.45k
20.42k (x1.78)
Test#2 (FP)
46.67k
95.83k (x2.05)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
14.69k
30.88k (x2.1)
Test#1 (Memory)
5.92k
9.7k (x1.64)
TOTAL
78.73k
156.83k (x1.99)

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
i5-6400
4110
Test#1 (Integers)
21.1k
18.78k (x0.89)
Test#2 (FP)
18.28k
16.25k (x0.89)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
4.22k
3.99k (x0.95)
Test#1 (Memory)
4.45k
6.8k (x1.53)
TOTAL
48.05k
45.82k (x0.95)

Multithread

i5-6400

4110
Test#1 (Integers)
80.03k
133.55k (x1.67)
Test#2 (FP)
71.1k
108.43k (x1.52)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
16.19k
30.02k (x1.85)
Test#1 (Memory)
6.73k
9.48k (x1.41)
TOTAL
174.05k
281.48k (x1.62)

Performance/W
i5-6400
4110
Test#1 (Integers)
1231 points/W
1571 points/W
Test#2 (FP)
1094 points/W
1276 points/W
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
249 points/W
353 points/W
Test#1 (Memory)
104 points/W
112 points/W
TOTAL
2678 points/W
3311 points/W

Performance/GHz
i5-6400
4110
Test#1 (Integers)
6394 points/GHz
6259 points/GHz
Test#2 (FP)
5539 points/GHz
5417 points/GHz
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
1279 points/GHz
1330 points/GHz
Test#1 (Memory)
1348 points/GHz
2267 points/GHz
TOTAL
14560 points/GHz
15273 points/GHz

Monothread performance graph
Monothread performance graphics gives the performance vs time. They are useful to measure the time it takes to the CPU to reach the maximum performance.

Usually, CPU's performance will be steady during these tests but if it has a slow frequency strategy, the first samples will show a lower score.


Test#1 (Integers) [points vs time]

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Test#2 (FP) [points vs time]

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Test#3 (Generic, ZIP) [points vs time]

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Test#1 (Memory) [points vs time]

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Multithread performance graph
Multithread graphs measure the performance against a heavy load during certain time.

If CPU's TDP doesn't limit the frequency and the machine is properly cooled, performance should remain steady vs time. Otherwise, the performance score will oscillate or decrease over time.


Test#1 (Integers) [points vs time]

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Test#2 (FP) [points vs time]

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Test#3 (Generic, ZIP) [points vs time]

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Test#1 (Memory) [points vs time]

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