Tuesday, March 2nd 2021
Intel Confirms March 30 for Rocket Lake-S Launch
Intel in a statement to Hardwareluxx has confirmed that the release date for the company's next-gen CPU family, codenamed Rocket Lake-S, will indeed see a global launch come March 30th. The 11000 family of CPUs is already being sold on Germany, however, via etailer Mindfactory.de, who apparently jumped the gun on the actual availability of said CPUs. Mindfactory only ships within Germany, meaning that that country is actually the sole current field for Intel's latest-gen CPUs. The etailer says that they have the right to sell the CPUs, and stands by its decision, which likely means that their supplier failed to convey the proper NDAs and launch dates when selling - or so we're led to believe. That's the reason why benchmarks of Intel's 11000-series are already in the wild - even for currently unannounced CPUs, such as the Core i7-11700K.
WCCFTech over the weekend got their hands on the full table for Intel's upcoming Core i9 and Core i7 products (at least those available at launch). Mainstream CPUs on the Core i5 family and below weren't listed, however. It remains to be seen whether the previously speculated March 15th launch date will actually be the official announcement date from Intel, of if something else is afoot for that particular day of March.
Sources:
Videocardz, WCCFTech
WCCFTech over the weekend got their hands on the full table for Intel's upcoming Core i9 and Core i7 products (at least those available at launch). Mainstream CPUs on the Core i5 family and below weren't listed, however. It remains to be seen whether the previously speculated March 15th launch date will actually be the official announcement date from Intel, of if something else is afoot for that particular day of March.
44 Comments on Intel Confirms March 30 for Rocket Lake-S Launch
I'm waiting for this review on march 30 but more interested in Alderlake at the end of the year.
I'd guess most posters find this weird, and ten 8C SKU's doesn't make the impression better. Maybe one need some kind of syndrome to ignore all that..
As for performance, I'm pretty sure it will run pretty well, not so sure about efficiency tho. But still, the launches are way too close.
For everything else Ryzen 5000 will be better.
Single core performance is always relevant, multicore performance is only relevant in certain situations and those situations diminish the more cores you add.
Obviously I currently use a 5950x so having moar cores is appreciated, but I actually use those cores.
So many nerds get number boners and forget that the numbers are theoretical.
Has its upsides though. In the mid-90s, to splurge on a top-end home/SOHO rig sans monitor not only meant spending $5000+ (in today's dollars), but also accepting it'd be severely outclassed within a couple of years.
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Found some leaks, there will be i5 some time in future. The way I see, it could be worse than Zen to Zen+ transition in term of performance.