Core i5-7300U vs Engineering Sample 506E8 3GHz
Description
Both models i5-7300U and 506E8 3GHz are based on Kaby Lake architecture.
The first Kaby Lake CPU was released in August 2016. It uses a 14 nm process and was the first architecture in breaking the previous tick-tock model. Actually, it is not that different from the preceding Skylake: it has 64kB of L1 cache and 256kB L2 cache per core.
Using the multithread performance as a reference, the i5-7300U gets a score of 109.1 k points while the 506E8 3GHz gets 210.9 k points.
Summarizing, the 506E8 3GHz is 1.9 times faster than the i5-7300U. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.
The first Kaby Lake CPU was released in August 2016. It uses a 14 nm process and was the first architecture in breaking the previous tick-tock model. Actually, it is not that different from the preceding Skylake: it has 64kB of L1 cache and 256kB L2 cache per core.
Using the multithread performance as a reference, the i5-7300U gets a score of 109.1 k points while the 506E8 3GHz gets 210.9 k points.
Summarizing, the 506E8 3GHz is 1.9 times faster than the i5-7300U. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.
Specs
CPUID
806e9
506e8
Core
Kaby Lake-U
Kaby Lake
Base frecuency
2.6 GHz
3 GHz
Boost frecuency
3.5 GHz
3.5 GHz
Socket
BGA1356
LGA 1151
Cores/Threads
2/4
4/8
TDP
15 W
- W
Cache L1 (d+i)
2x32+2x32 kB
4x32+4x32 kB
Cache L2
2x256 kB
4x256 kB
Cache L3
3072 kB
8192 kB
Date
January 2017
June 2016
Mean monothread perf.
48.25k points
58.05k points
Mean multithread perf.
109.1k points
210.91k 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
i5-7300U
506E8 3GHz
Test#1 (Integers)
20.18k
22.46k (x1.11)
Test#2 (FP)
18.57k
20.45k (x1.1)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
4.24k
4.75k (x1.12)
Test#1 (Memory)
5.25k
10.39k (x1.98)
TOTAL
48.25k
58.05k (x1.2)
Multithread
i5-7300U
506E8 3GHz
Test#1 (Integers)
47.75k
92.69k (x1.94)
Test#2 (FP)
44.82k
90.45k (x2.02)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
10.82k
22.02k (x2.03)
Test#1 (Memory)
5.7k
5.75k (x1.01)
TOTAL
109.1k
210.91k (x1.93)
Performance/W
i5-7300U
506E8 3GHz
Test#1 (Integers)
3184 points/W