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Core i9-10940X vs Engineering Sample 906ED 2.1GHz


Description
The i9-10940X is based on Cascade Lake architecture while the 906ED 2.1GHz is based on Comet Lake.

Using the multithread performance as a reference, the i9-10940X gets a score of 1088.1 k points while the 906ED 2.1GHz gets 657.2 k points.

Summarizing, the i9-10940X is 1.7 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
50657
906ed
Core
Cascade Lake-X
Comet Lake-H
Architecture
Base frecuency
3.3 GHz
3.6 GHz
Boost frecuency
4.8 GHz
5 GHz
Socket
LGA 2066
LGA 1151
Cores/Threads
14/28
8/16
TDP
165 W
- W
Cache L1 (d+i)
14x32+14x32 kB
8x32+8x32 kB
Cache L2
14x1024 kB
8x256 kB
Cache L3
19712 kB
16384 kB
Date
November 2019
March 2020
Mean monothread perf.
72.04k points
86.65k points
Mean multithread perf.
1088.11k points
657.19k 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
i9-10940X
906ED 2.1GHz
Test#1 (Integers)
29.75k
33.92k (x1.14)
Test#2 (FP)
27.44k
30k (x1.09)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
5.81k
7.01k (x1.21)
Test#1 (Memory)
9.05k
15.73k (x1.74)
TOTAL
72.04k
86.65k (x1.2)

Multithread

i9-10940X

906ED 2.1GHz
Test#1 (Integers)
485.37k
302.78k (x0.62)
Test#2 (FP)
472.7k
278.98k (x0.59)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
113.09k
67.89k (x0.6)
Test#1 (Memory)
16.95k
7.53k (x0.44)
TOTAL
1088.11k
657.19k (x0.6)

Performance/W
i9-10940X
906ED 2.1GHz
Test#1 (Integers)
2942 points/W