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Core i7-10700 vs Engineering Sample 906EC


Description
The i7-10700 is based on Comet Lake architecture while the 906EC is based on Coffee Lake.

Using the multithread performance as a reference, the i7-10700 gets a score of 537.7 k points while the 906EC gets 494.2 k points.

Summarizing, the i7-10700 is 1.1 times faster than the 906EC. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.

Specs
CPUID
a0655
906ec
Core
Comet Lake-S
Coffee Lake-S
Architecture
Base frecuency
2.9 GHz
2.1 GHz
Boost frecuency
4.8 GHz
4.3 GHz
Socket
LGA 1200
LGA 1151
Cores/Threads
8/16
8/16
TDP
65 W
- W
Cache L1 (d+i)
8x32+8x32 kB
8x32+8x32 kB
Cache L2
8x256 kB
8x256 kB
Cache L3
16386 kB
16384 kB
Date
April 2020
January 2019
Mean monothread perf.
74.53k points
70.55k points
Mean multithread perf.
537.73k 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
i7-10700
906EC
Test#1 (Integers)
30.66k
28.3k (x0.92)
Test#2 (FP)
25.64k
24.99k (x0.97)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
5.98k
5.55k (x0.93)
Test#1 (Memory)
12.25k
11.71k (x0.96)
TOTAL
74.53k
70.55k (x0.95)

Multithread

i7-10700

906EC
Test#1 (Integers)
240.28k
229.27k (x0.95)
Test#2 (FP)
234.3k
209.21k (x0.89)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
56.12k
48.53k (x0.86)
Test#1 (Memory)
7.02k
7.23k (x1.03)
TOTAL
537.73k
494.24k (x0.92)

Performance/W
i7-10700
906EC
Test#1 (Integers)
3697 points/W