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Core i7-7700HQ vs Engineering Sample 506E8


Description
Both models i7-7700HQ and 506E8 are based on Kaby Lake architecture.

The first Kaby Lake CPU was released in August 2016. It uses a 14 nm process and was the first architecture in breaking the previous tick-tock model. Actually, it is not that different from the preceding Skylake: it has 64kB of L1 cache and 256kB L2 cache per core.

Using the multithread performance as a reference, the i7-7700HQ gets a score of 208.3 k points while the 506E8 gets 211.6 k points.

Summarizing, the 506E8 is 1 times faster than the i7-7700HQ. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.

Specs
CPUID
906e9
506e8
Core
Kaby Lake-H
Kaby Lake
Architecture
Base frecuency
2.8 GHz
2.4 GHz
Boost frecuency
3.8 GHz
3.7 GHz
Socket
BGA1440
LGA 1151
Cores/Threads
4/8
4/8
TDP
45 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
January 2017
June 2016
Mean monothread perf.
56.29k points
56.39k points
Mean multithread perf.
208.33k 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
i7-7700HQ
506E8
Test#1 (Integers)
23.27k
23.91k (x1.03)
Test#2 (FP)
20.35k
21.03k (x1.03)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
4.76k
5.05k (x1.06)
Test#1 (Memory)
7.92k
6.4k (x0.81)
TOTAL
56.29k
56.39k (x1)

Multithread

i7-7700HQ

506E8
Test#1 (Integers)
93.11k
95.3k (x1.02)
Test#2 (FP)
89.03k
91.94k (x1.03)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
21.29k
22.06k (x1.04)
Test#1 (Memory)
4.9k
2.3k (x0.47)
TOTAL
208.33k
211.6k (x1.02)

Performance/W
i7-7700HQ
506E8
Test#1 (Integers)
2069 points/W