Monday, November 2nd 2020
Intel Rocket Lake-S CPU Benchmarked: Up to 22% Faster Compared to the Previous Generation
Just a few days ago, Intel has decided to surprise us and give out information about its upcoming Rocket Lake-S platform designed for desktop users. Arriving early next year (Q1) the Rocket Lake-S platform is yet another iteration of the company's 14 nm node. However, this time we are getting some real system changes with a new architecture design. Backporting its Golden Cove core to 14 nm, Intel has named this new core type Cypress Cove. What used to be the heart of Ice Lake CPUs, is now powering the Rocket Lake-S platform. Besides the new core, there are other features of the platform like PCIe 4.0, new Xe graphics, and updated media codecs. You can check that out here.
Today, we have gotten the first benchmarks of the Intel Rocket Lake-S system. In the Userbenchmark bench, an unknown eight-core Rocket Lake CPU has been compared to Intel's 10th generation Comet Lake-S processors. The Rocket Lake engineering sample ran at 4.2 GHz while scoring a single-core score of 179. Compared to the Core i9-10900K that runs at 5.3 GHz, which scored 152 points, the Cypress Cove design is 18% faster. And if the new design is compared to the equivalent 8C/16T Compet Lake CPU like Core i7-10700K clocked at 5.1 GHz and scoring 148 points, the new CPU uarch is up to 22% faster. This represents massive single-threaded performance increases, however, please take the information with a grain of salt, as we wait for the official reviews.
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WCCFTech
Today, we have gotten the first benchmarks of the Intel Rocket Lake-S system. In the Userbenchmark bench, an unknown eight-core Rocket Lake CPU has been compared to Intel's 10th generation Comet Lake-S processors. The Rocket Lake engineering sample ran at 4.2 GHz while scoring a single-core score of 179. Compared to the Core i9-10900K that runs at 5.3 GHz, which scored 152 points, the Cypress Cove design is 18% faster. And if the new design is compared to the equivalent 8C/16T Compet Lake CPU like Core i7-10700K clocked at 5.1 GHz and scoring 148 points, the new CPU uarch is up to 22% faster. This represents massive single-threaded performance increases, however, please take the information with a grain of salt, as we wait for the official reviews.
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Even the Intel subreddit has banned Userbenchmark as a source.
www.reddit.com/r/intel/comments/g36a2a/userbenchmark_has_been_banned_from_rintel/
Their scoring is unreliable and as independent and trustworthy as a suggestion from a fanboy.
I said results vs interpreting and presenting them. Links talk about CPU rankings and CPU score weights - all about interpretation and presentation.
From all the controversies I do not remember critique about the results themselves.
Basically when you run that benchmark the results you get for 1-core, 2-core, 4-core, 8-core and 64-core have been the same all this time, never changed and that was never the problem.Rocket Lake is desktop, LGA1200, Q1-2021 (March, probably).
All the following hardware needs good and solid 3rd party testing, apart from producers claim, too:
- Zen3 (this we'll hopefully get very soon - days, I hope)
- RDNA2
- 3600 Ti
- Intel Xe (all variants)
See the example in GPU. AMD made a GPU that they will sell for 999USD and has the same performance as the Nvidia 1500 dolar gpu. And please remeber they are going to make profit even selling the cheap 999 dolars cpu. whats above that is simply greed. Which is even more compeling on those multi thousand enterprise gpus, when they should cost but a couple of hundred dollars at most.
Capitalism at its best. If we want this trend to dissapear, wed need to make money dissapear. Just like in star trek. Otherwise this will alwayshappen
The clock speed needs to be locked (and far away from power limits) in order to approximate IPC. Reported clock speeds of engineering samples are all over the place, and even for retail products rated clock speeds are not actual clock speeds.Rocket Lake is likely a Sunny Cove derivative, which probably will result in IPC gains at ~18%. (unless it has improvements beyond Sunny Cove)Unfortunately, this is true for Linux support, and is why my next workstation will be Intel/Nvidia based.
But I'll probably get an AMD system too, since I'm down one machine. But I'll wait for good reviews of motherboards, as I don't have time to be a beta tester.
"Here you see that the previous rating was split with 60% of the score being tests of quad-core level performance, while the single-core comes in at 30% and higher than quad-core labeled 'multi-core' being 10%. Now we move right and find that the scoring has been adjusted as follows. Quad-core level performance drops to 58%, single-core jumps to 40%, while the multi-core falls to a mere 2%. This would make sense several years ago when frequencies were still growing, but now that it is increasingly more difficult to increase frequencies, scaling in cores has been having over the past 3+ years. I guess you could say that since Ryzen came onto the scene it has started the shift to many more cores on consumer-level CPUs."
If the results are biased, what is there to interpret? How it's not biased?
As you point out, aggregation has changed, the way they put together their own performance index or whatever they call it these days. This is interpretation and presentation.
The results of individual tests are not biased.
I will wait for an offical review in march 2021.
You obviously did not understand what the problem with Userbenchmark was or what can or cannot be taken seriously from them.
Userbenchmark has been a pretty valuable resource for leaks and their measured numbers are not bad.
Mastrdrver links which I read before he posted them speaks volumes on this topic.
If you want to use them all the power to you. I will wait for official reviews.
I'd stay away from it. Perhaps it's good in horseshoes, hand grenades, and nuclear warfare...but not sniping. :)
The power draw and heat of these is going to be just as horrible as Comet Lake.
...just saying. :p
And even if Rocket lake has equal or greater performance to Zen 3. They won't have an answer for the 12 and 16 cores parts.
Why are you trying to make a distinction where there is not one?
Can't say I've ever had problems with a CPU aside from a defective 4790K. CPU problems are incredibly rare, regardless of vendor.