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Core i5-8500T vs Engineering Sample 506E8


Description
The i5-8500T is based on Coffee Lake architecture while the 506E8 is based on Kaby Lake.

Using the multithread performance as a reference, the i5-8500T gets a score of 251.8 k points while the 506E8 gets 211.6 k points.

Summarizing, the i5-8500T is 1.2 times faster than the 506E8. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.

Specs
CPUID
906ea
506e8
Core
Coffee Lake-S
Kaby Lake
Architecture
Base frecuency
2.1 GHz
2.4 GHz
Boost frecuency
3.5 GHz
3.7 GHz
Socket
LGA 1151
LGA 1151
Cores/Threads
6/6
4/8
TDP
35 W
- W
Cache L1 (d+i)
6x32+6x32 kB
4x32+4x32 kB
Cache L2
6x256 kB
4x256 kB
Cache L3
9216 kB
8192 kB
Date
March 2018
June 2016
Mean monothread perf.
59.27k points
56.39k points
Mean multithread perf.
251.82k points
211.6k 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
i5-8500T
506E8
Test#1 (Integers)
23.13k
23.91k (x1.03)
Test#2 (FP)
20.7k
21.03k (x1.02)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
4.71k
5.05k (x1.07)
Test#1 (Memory)
10.73k
6.4k (x0.6)
TOTAL
59.27k
56.39k (x0.95)

Multithread

i5-8500T

506E8
Test#1 (Integers)
125.17k
95.3k (x0.76)
Test#2 (FP)
98.07k
91.94k (x0.94)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
25.57k
22.06k (x0.86)
Test#1 (Memory)
3.01k
2.3k (x0.76)
TOTAL
251.82k
211.6k (x0.84)

Performance/W
i5-8500T
506E8
Test#1 (Integers)
3576 points/W