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Core i9-10900K vs Engineering Sample 906ED 2.1GHz


Description
Both models i9-10900K and 906ED 2.1GHz are based on Comet Lake architecture.

Comet Lake was released in 2019 as a 14nm process-refinement. These models were released as 10th generation CPUs like 10nm Ice Lake. There are model with 2 to 10 cores.

Using the multithread performance as a reference, the i9-10900K gets a score of 685.6 k points while the 906ED 2.1GHz gets 657.2 k points.

Summarizing, the i9-10900K is 1 times faster than the 906ED 2.1GHz. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.

Specs
CPUID
a0655
906ed
Core
Comet Lake-S
Comet Lake-H
Architecture
Base frecuency
3.7 GHz
3.6 GHz
Boost frecuency
5.2 GHz
5 GHz
Socket
LGA 1200
LGA 1151
Cores/Threads
10/20
8/16
TDP
125 W
- W
Cache L1 (d+i)
10x32+10x32 kB
8x32+8x32 kB
Cache L2
10x256 kB
8x256 kB
Cache L3
20480 kB
16384 kB
Date
April 2020
March 2020
Mean monothread perf.
80.41k points
86.65k points
Mean multithread perf.
685.65k points
657.19k points

SSE3 optimized benchmark
The benchmark in mode I (SSE) is optimized for the use of SIMD instructions with 128 bits register and the SSE set up to version 3. Nearly every modern CPU has support for this mode.
Monothread
i9-10900K
906ED 2.1GHz
Test#1 (Integers)
19.5k
18.76k (x0.96)
Test#2 (FP)
28.01k
27.15k (x0.97)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
7.45k
7.15k (x0.96)
Test#1 (Memory)
15.82k
15.31k (x0.97)
TOTAL
70.79k
68.37k (x0.97)

Multithread

i9-10900K

906ED 2.1GHz
Test#1 (Integers)
194.49k
156.95k (x0.81)
Test#2 (FP)
312.59k
250.7k (x0.8)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
89.14k
70.02k (x0.79)
Test#1 (Memory)
12.58k
7.43k (x0.59)
TOTAL
608.81k
485.11k (x0.8)

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
i9-10900K
906ED 2.1GHz
Test#1 (Integers)
32.67k
33.92k (x1.04)
Test#2 (FP)
28.49k
30k (x1.05)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
6.53k
7.01k (x1.07)
Test#1 (Memory)
12.72k
15.73k (x1.24)
TOTAL
80.41k
86.65k (x1.08)

Multithread

i9-10900K

906ED 2.1GHz
Test#1 (Integers)
307.39k
302.78k (x0.99)
Test#2 (FP)
298.47k
278.98k (x0.93)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
72.94k
67.89k (x0.93)
Test#1 (Memory)
6.85k
7.53k (x1.1)
TOTAL
685.65k
657.19k (x0.96)

Performance/W
i9-10900K
906ED 2.1GHz
Test#1 (Integers)
2459 points/W