Friday, January 8th 2021
Intel Rocket Lake-S CPU Pushed to 6.9 GHz on LN2
An Intel Rocket Lake-S CPU with 8 cores and 16 threads has recently surfaced in an overclocking video, being pushed to 6.923 GHz operating frequency, as showcased via a CPU-Z screen-grabbed from the video. Neither author of the video or the overclocker that pulled this feat are currently known. However, it can be seen from the CPU-Z that the overclocked CPU at 6.9 GHz supports instruction sets not available to Intel's current lineup of desktop CPUs, but that will be supported by Rocket Lake-S: namely, SHA and AVX512F. Likewise, the cache sizes correspond to the expected changes for Intel's Rocket Lake-S.
The overclocked CPU was paired with overclocked DDR4 memory as well, which was brought up to 6,666 MHz, buoyed by a crispy 1.830 V. Motherboard information is scarce, but it's speculated that it's a Gigabyte-branded Z590 motherboard. Perhaps this video is part of an Intel-pushed marketing attempt to increase desirability of its Rocket Lake-S CPUs to overclockers and enthusiasts. Expect the official Rocket Lake-S unveiling to occur during CES, with market availability around March.
Sources:
Videocardz, VWorld
The overclocked CPU was paired with overclocked DDR4 memory as well, which was brought up to 6,666 MHz, buoyed by a crispy 1.830 V. Motherboard information is scarce, but it's speculated that it's a Gigabyte-branded Z590 motherboard. Perhaps this video is part of an Intel-pushed marketing attempt to increase desirability of its Rocket Lake-S CPUs to overclockers and enthusiasts. Expect the official Rocket Lake-S unveiling to occur during CES, with market availability around March.
63 Comments on Intel Rocket Lake-S CPU Pushed to 6.9 GHz on LN2
Seriously, though, the last thing we need is another monopoly, knock Intel all you want, praise AMD all you want, but we NEED both to be healthy to stimulate innovation and keep prices in check.
AVX512 is a joke. Have you seen the feature table? What a mess... Nobody is using this seriously unless Intel is sponsoring their development.
Those that can benefit from it are in the enterprise space but as you have shown above still very small use case.
It must have been bring your child to work day. :p
AMD's 8.7GHz at 32nm is pretty damn impressive for an 8 core CPU though
I'm using the z490 Extreme4 motherboard with P1.20 current update and Kingston m.2 SSD not showing for Windows 10 setup. Basically go to install windows and my m.2 SSD is not being recognised even though I can see it in the BIOS. I have tried many things such as disabling CSM but still not showing up. I have even formatted the SSD and still can't see it. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
In my opinion, Intel's launch of Rocket Lake is unlikely to attract a lot of potential Ryzen buyers. Unless you literally don't mind having a hot rocket in your computer, then this may be an option for you. To get the most out of the Rocket Lake, you need it to run as fast a clockspeed as it can achieve, which also means its gonna need around 250W of power. If you have a 250W CPU and a close to 350W GPU in your desktop, you better make sure you got some serious cooling in there.
Intel board room only version...
Anyway it's an enthusiast thing. It serves no practical purpose.
But no matter what, 6.9 ghz on ln2 is not that impressive compared to what other CPU's have achieved before.
If it cut do 6.9 ghz on air or normal water cooling. That had been a hole nother story then and gotten my attention. But with LN2, I just feel it's like been there done that now it's time to move on.
Also rocket lake is not that impressive on its own either. It is still 14nm, only 8 cores. It might be a new core design, but still 14nm.
Also been nearly 12 years now on intels X58 platform makes me feel old, thinking back.
I guess a lucky few remember browsing pr0n on a dial-up. Halfway the picture was loaded and most of were done. :D
And no, it won't be.It literally started as a cpu program, we have a thread where people ran it here on TPU, it far predates even Haswell lol.
It wasn't always about making money.