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Core i5-8265U vs Engineering Sample 506E8 3GHz


Description
The i5-8265U is based on Whiskey Lake architecture while the 506E8 3GHz is based on Kaby Lake.

Using the multithread performance as a reference, the i5-8265U gets a score of 149.5 k points while the 506E8 3GHz gets 210.9 k points.

Summarizing, the 506E8 3GHz is 1.4 times faster than the i5-8265U. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.

Specs
CPUID
806eb
506e8
Core
Whiskey Lake-U
Kaby Lake
Architecture
Base frecuency
1.6 GHz
3 GHz
Boost frecuency
3.9 GHz
3.5 GHz
Socket
BGA 1528
LGA 1151
Cores/Threads
4/8
4/8
TDP
15 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
August 2018
June 2016
Mean monothread perf.
57.57k points
58.05k points
Mean multithread perf.
149.48k 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
i5-8265U
506E8 3GHz
Test#1 (Integers)
24.32k
22.46k (x0.92)
Test#2 (FP)
20.35k
20.45k (x1)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
4.38k
4.75k (x1.08)
Test#1 (Memory)
8.52k
10.39k (x1.22)
TOTAL
57.57k
58.05k (x1.01)

Multithread

i5-8265U

506E8 3GHz
Test#1 (Integers)
65.17k
92.69k (x1.42)
Test#2 (FP)
63.6k
90.45k (x1.42)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
14.4k
22.02k (x1.53)
Test#1 (Memory)
6.31k
5.75k (x0.91)
TOTAL
149.48k
210.91k (x1.41)

Performance/W
i5-8265U
506E8 3GHz
Test#1 (Integers)
4345 points/W