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Core i7-8565U vs Engineering Sample 906EC


Description
The i7-8565U is based on Whiskey Lake architecture while the 906EC is based on Coffee Lake.

Using the multithread performance as a reference, the i7-8565U gets a score of 142.5 k points while the 906EC gets 494.2 k points.

Summarizing, the 906EC is 3.5 times faster than the i7-8565U. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.

Specs
CPUID
806eb
906ec
Core
Whiskey Lake-U
Coffee Lake-S
Architecture
Base frecuency
1.8 GHz
2.1 GHz
Boost frecuency
4.6 GHz
4.3 GHz
Socket
BGA 1528
LGA 1151
Cores/Threads
4/8
8/16
TDP
15 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
August 2018
January 2019
Mean monothread perf.
67.83k points
70.55k points
Mean multithread perf.
142.55k 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
i7-8565U
906EC
Test#1 (Integers)
27.2k
28.3k (x1.04)
Test#2 (FP)
23.47k
24.99k (x1.06)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
4.91k
5.55k (x1.13)
Test#1 (Memory)
12.25k
11.71k (x0.96)
TOTAL
67.83k
70.55k (x1.04)

Multithread

i7-8565U

906EC
Test#1 (Integers)
64.33k
229.27k (x3.56)
Test#2 (FP)
58.47k
209.21k (x3.58)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
15.82k
48.53k (x3.07)
Test#1 (Memory)
3.93k
7.23k (x1.84)
TOTAL
142.55k
494.24k (x3.47)

Performance/W
i7-8565U
906EC
Test#1 (Integers)
4288 points/W