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Core i5-9300H vs Engineering Sample 906EC


Description
Both models i5-9300H and 906EC are based on Coffee Lake architecture.

Coffee Lake is the second refinement of Intel’s 14nm (Tri-Gate) technology. While it uses LGA1151 socket, it is incompatible with previous generations due to electrical changes in socket’s pins so these CPUs require Z370 chipset. This kind of generation introduced more cores in every range to compete with new AMD’s architecture. Coffee Lake uses DDR4 memory at 2400MHz for i3 and at 2666MHz for i5, i7 CPUs plus iGPU frequency has been increased 50MHz with respect to previous generation.

Using the multithread performance as a reference, the i5-9300H gets a score of 244.1 k points while the 906EC gets 494.2 k points.

Summarizing, the 906EC is 2 times faster than the i5-9300H. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.

Specs
CPUID
906ea
906ec
Core
Coffee Lake-H
Coffee Lake-S
Architecture
Base frecuency
2.4 GHz
2.1 GHz
Boost frecuency
4.1 GHz
4.3 GHz
Socket
FCBGA1440
LGA 1151
Cores/Threads
4/8
8/16
TDP
45 W
- W
Cache L1 (d+i)
4x32+4x32 kB
8x32+8x32 kB
Cache L2
4x256 kB
8x256 kB
Cache L3
8192 kB
16384 kB
Date
April 2019
January 2019
Mean monothread perf.
67.57k points
70.55k points
Mean multithread perf.
244.1k points
494.24k 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
i5-9300H
906EC
Test#1 (Integers)
26.62k
28.3k (x1.06)
Test#2 (FP)
23.38k
24.99k (x1.07)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
5.52k
5.55k (x1.01)
Test#1 (Memory)
12.05k
11.71k (x0.97)
TOTAL
67.57k
70.55k (x1.04)

Multithread

i5-9300H

906EC
Test#1 (Integers)
107.95k
229.27k (x2.12)
Test#2 (FP)
104.02k
209.21k (x2.01)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
24.4k
48.53k (x1.99)
Test#1 (Memory)
7.74k
7.23k (x0.93)
TOTAL
244.1k
494.24k (x2.02)

Performance/W
i5-9300H
906EC
Test#1 (Integers)
2399 points/W