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Core E5-2620 v3 vs Engineering Sample 906EC


Description
The E5-2620 v3 is based on Haswell architecture while the 906EC is based on Coffee Lake.

Using the multithread performance as a reference, the E5-2620 v3 gets a score of 358 k points while the 906EC gets 494.2 k points.

Summarizing, the 906EC is 1.4 times faster than the E5-2620 v3. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.

Specs
CPUID
306f2
906ec
Core
Haswell-EP
Coffee Lake-S
Architecture
Base frecuency
2.4 GHz
2.1 GHz
Boost frecuency
3.2 GHz
4.3 GHz
Socket
LGA 2011-3
LGA 1151
Cores/Threads
6/12
8/16
TDP
85 W
- W
Cache L1 (d+i)
6x32+6x32 kB
8x32+8x32 kB
Cache L2
6x256 kB
8x256 kB
Cache L3
15360 kB
16384 kB
Date
September 2014
January 2019
Mean monothread perf.
35.86k points
70.55k points
Mean multithread perf.
357.99k 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
E5-2620 v3
906EC
Test#1 (Integers)
18.64k
28.3k (x1.52)
Test#2 (FP)
10.55k
24.99k (x2.37)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
4.12k
5.55k (x1.35)
Test#1 (Memory)
2.54k
11.71k (x4.61)
TOTAL
35.86k
70.55k (x1.97)

Multithread

E5-2620 v3

906EC
Test#1 (Integers)
181.66k
229.27k (x1.26)
Test#2 (FP)
122.09k
209.21k (x1.71)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
47.02k
48.53k (x1.03)
Test#1 (Memory)
7.22k
7.23k (x1)
TOTAL
357.99k
494.24k (x1.38)

Performance/W
E5-2620 v3
906EC
Test#1 (Integers)
2137 points/W