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Core i5-7400 vs Engineering Sample 506E8 3GHz


Description
Both models i5-7400 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 i5-7400 gets a score of 173.7 k points while the 506E8 3GHz gets 210.9 k points.

Summarizing, the 506E8 3GHz is 1.2 times faster than the i5-7400 . To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.

Specs
CPUID
906e9
506e8
Core
Kaby Lake-S
Kaby Lake
Architecture
Base frecuency
3 GHz
3 GHz
Boost frecuency
3.5 GHz
3.5 GHz
Socket
LGA 1151
LGA 1151
Cores/Threads
4/4
4/8
TDP
65 W
- W
Cache L1 (d+i)
4x32+4x32 kB
4x32+4x32 kB
Cache L2
4x256 kB
4x256 kB
Cache L3
6144 kB
8192 kB
Date
September 2016
June 2016
Mean monothread perf.
52.69k points
58.05k points
Mean multithread perf.
173.7k 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
i5-7400
506E8 3GHz
Test#1 (Integers)
22.37k
22.46k (x1)
Test#2 (FP)
19.46k
20.45k (x1.05)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
4.44k
4.75k (x1.07)
Test#1 (Memory)
6.41k
10.39k (x1.62)
TOTAL
52.69k
58.05k (x1.1)

Multithread

i5-7400

506E8 3GHz
Test#1 (Integers)
79.57k
92.69k (x1.16)
Test#2 (FP)
71.41k
90.45k (x1.27)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
16.44k
22.02k (x1.34)
Test#1 (Memory)
6.27k
5.75k (x0.92)
TOTAL
173.7k
210.91k (x1.21)

Performance/W
i5-7400
506E8 3GHz
Test#1 (Integers)
1224 points/W