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Core E5-2620 v3 vs Engineering Sample 906ED 2.1GHz


Description
The E5-2620 v3 is based on Haswell architecture while the 906ED 2.1GHz is based on Comet Lake.

Using the multithread performance as a reference, the E5-2620 v3 gets a score of 358 k points while the 906ED 2.1GHz gets 657.2 k points.

Summarizing, the 906ED 2.1GHz is 1.8 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
906ed
Core
Haswell-EP
Comet Lake-H
Architecture
Base frecuency
2.4 GHz
3.6 GHz
Boost frecuency
3.2 GHz
5 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
March 2020
Mean monothread perf.
35.86k points
86.65k points
Mean multithread perf.
357.99k 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
E5-2620 v3
906ED 2.1GHz
Test#1 (Integers)
18.64k
33.92k (x1.82)
Test#2 (FP)
10.55k
30k (x2.84)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
4.12k
7.01k (x1.7)
Test#1 (Memory)
2.54k
15.73k (x6.19)
TOTAL
35.86k
86.65k (x2.42)

Multithread

E5-2620 v3

906ED 2.1GHz
Test#1 (Integers)
181.66k
302.78k (x1.67)
Test#2 (FP)
122.09k
278.98k (x2.29)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
47.02k
67.89k (x1.44)
Test#1 (Memory)
7.22k
7.53k (x1.04)
TOTAL
357.99k
657.19k (x1.84)

Performance/W
E5-2620 v3
906ED 2.1GHz
Test#1 (Integers)
2137 points/W