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Core i7-4790K vs Engineering Sample 506E8


Description
The i7-4790K is based on Haswell architecture while the 506E8 is based on Kaby Lake.

Using the multithread performance as a reference, the i7-4790K gets a score of 215.5 k points while the 506E8 gets 211.6 k points.

Summarizing, the i7-4790K is 1 times faster than the 506E8. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.

Specs
CPUID
306c3
506e8
Core
Haswell
Kaby Lake
Architecture
Base frecuency
4 GHz
2.4 GHz
Boost frecuency
4.4 GHz
3.7 GHz
Socket
LGA 1150
LGA 1151
Cores/Threads
4/8
4/8
TDP
88 W
- W
Cache L1 (d+i)
32+32 kB
4x32+4x32 kB
Cache L2
256 kB
4x256 kB
Cache L3
8192 kB
8192 kB
Date
May 2014
June 2016
Mean monothread perf.
52.47k points
56.39k points
Mean multithread perf.
215.47k 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
i7-4790K
506E8
Test#1 (Integers)
26.16k
23.91k (x0.91)
Test#2 (FP)
14.78k
21.03k (x1.42)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
6.01k
5.05k (x0.84)
Test#1 (Memory)
5.52k
6.4k (x1.16)
TOTAL
52.47k
56.39k (x1.07)

Multithread

i7-4790K

506E8
Test#1 (Integers)
107.76k
95.3k (x0.88)
Test#2 (FP)
70.84k
91.94k (x1.3)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
27.99k
22.06k (x0.79)
Test#1 (Memory)
8.87k
2.3k (x0.26)
TOTAL
215.47k
211.6k (x0.98)

Performance/W
i7-4790K
506E8
Test#1 (Integers)
1225 points/W