Thursday, February 11th 2021
First Comprehensive Review of the Core i7-11700K (ES) Surfaces
Lab501 posted the first comprehensive review of an Intel Core i7-11700K "Rocket Lake-S" engineering sample. The ES has clock speeds matching the rumored clock speeds of the retail version, and should give you a fair idea of how the finished product should perform. The i7-11700K, which is an 8-core/16-thread chip, was tested to be being consistently behind the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X in synthetics such as WPrime, rendering tests such as Blender, video-encoding tests such as Handbrake, and was negligibly trading blows with the 5800X at gaming ±1%. The chip does post leads over the previous-gen i7-10700K in all these areas, though.
Performance aside, the Core i7-11700K is shown to have significantly higher power draw, with the whole-system power draw being 27% higher than a 5800X-based whole-system, when measured using Prime95 (which only adds a CPU load). In a real-world scenario such as gaming, where GPU power draw is added, this whole-system power draw percentage difference should come down. Interestingly, the i7-11700K isn't a "hot" processor, running up to 18°C cooler than a 5800X under Prime95 load. Check out this, and other invaluable early insights into "Rocket Lake" by hitting the source link below.
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Lab501.ro
Performance aside, the Core i7-11700K is shown to have significantly higher power draw, with the whole-system power draw being 27% higher than a 5800X-based whole-system, when measured using Prime95 (which only adds a CPU load). In a real-world scenario such as gaming, where GPU power draw is added, this whole-system power draw percentage difference should come down. Interestingly, the i7-11700K isn't a "hot" processor, running up to 18°C cooler than a 5800X under Prime95 load. Check out this, and other invaluable early insights into "Rocket Lake" by hitting the source link below.
59 Comments on First Comprehensive Review of the Core i7-11700K (ES) Surfaces
The 11700k compared to the 5800x:
11700k has much more power draw(20%+)
11700k is slower in multi-threaded workloads.
11700k is the same speed in games @1080p. Your 4133mhz memory isn't going to make the 11700k any faster than a 5800x paired with similar memory.
It will come down to price and availability. If the 10700k is priced below the 5800x when it releases, or the 5800x is still very hard to get a hold of, the 11700k is a CPU to consider if someone desperately needs a CPU. I know maybe you're angry that you can't get AMD CPU's, but AMD is definitely not 'wasting' silicon on consoles. AMD had help developing RDNA from Sony & Microsoft and I'd say it has worked out pretty well for them, as they now have a competitive GPU to compete with Nvidia. Not only that, but like the last generation of consoles, AMD has a guaranteed revenue stream that they can rely on for the next 5+ years.
Consoles with amd 8 core potato just confirms an 8 core is fine for gaming hardly a waste.
sure, its scienties rules that 14nm cpu eat little more power...
i see that test shows few things...is it 7nm amd cpu lausy lausy or intel 14nm cpu super good..all can think about it...both?
bcoz... let imagine situation that also intel have that 7nm cpu....so no handicap advance for amd.
woah, i wanna see intel 7nm vs amd 7nm cpu battle.
think we seen it soon, anyway its just matter of time...
Tldr: zen 3 has no chance vs max tuned RAM Comet Lake in games. Now imagine rocket Lake.
I beat all those posted scores they have on my machine.
We will have to wait for official reviews. Since i've been on AM4 since december 2019 we have had to many bios updates and improvement in AGESA code that the numbers will look different by the launch of this in march anyways.
The video you linked could have been a 5600x vs 10700k, or a 10600k vs 10700k for that matter and the results would have been almost exactly the same. You can look on this website to see that's the case: tpucdn.com/review/amd-ryzen-7-5800x/images/relative-performance-games-38410-2160.png
So again:
11700k has much more power draw(20%+)
11700k is slower in multi-threaded workloads.
11700k is the same speed in games @1080p.
It will come down to price and availability. If the 10700k is priced below the 5800x when it releases, or the 5800x is still very hard to get a hold of, the 11700k is a CPU to consider if someone desperately needs a CPU.
I'll add that it's an awkward time to get a CPU. We're coming to the transition to DDR5. Both AMD & Intel sockets are a dead end, so the only upgrade available is a 11900k for the intel platform, which... is still an 8c/16t CPU, so basically not worth considering. On the other hand, at least with AMD you can upgrade to a 16/32 CPU, if you need threads. I personally wouldn't upgrade if I had anything 4/8 or higher at this point until DDR5. Can't get a GPU to pair with a CPU anyway.
I remember going into DDR3 hype, just to get stuck at awful 1033mhz CL13 speeds and paying 150€ for 8gb kit. 2 years down the road and 1666mhz CL8 cost 50€ for 2x4gb kits.
Didnt learn my lesson and jumped to DDR4 day 1, paying 200€ for 2x4gb 2400mhz CL18. 2 years later and 3200mhz CL16 was the norm, Costing 100€ for 2x4gb.
No way Im Jumping on DDR5, buying the first kits for a lot of money. Next time I jump to new platform with new RAM, I Will make sure the RAM kits that I buy Will last me that entire DDR5 GEN.
Awful idea to buy new RAM as soon as it gets released. I Will wait for it to mature first.
Even if AM4 or LGA 1200 is a dead end platform, lots of users / gamers are content with the cheapest 6-8 core zen2/10th gen cpus. 3200 cl16 memories are cheap, motherboards not too pricey, and probably will be enough for a few years, not to mention they are stable.
Who want the latest and greatest, surely will pay for the new DDR5 platform and hardwares along with new bugs.
I have an MSI B450 Tomahawk with a Ryzen 5 2600, sure i would like to upgrade it to a cheap 200 € 6c/12t Zen3 cpu, but i also like how Intel processors getting cheaper and cheaper, and don't like AMD's CPU are becoming more and more expensive, they probably introduced the XT processors, so they could increase Zen3 prices, because it is even faster than them.
As i look at the current prices at some point i started to consider if it is worth to selling current AMD MB+CPU and buy a new Intel B560 board, with a cheapish 11400.
No, I will not have that!!
That makes me doubt the validity of these results a bit
remember xbox serie x : 12TFLOP , ITX 1to sdd , core 8 :499 e
But you can lookup any review out there that uses 4200c16 on Comet Lake, winning against zen 3 In gaming. Overclock dot net has a lot of tests, but you Will Prolly Say they are not valid.
Is called being on denial.
Might as well be the biggest window-washing company for all I care.
All I can say is that every benchmark/review I have seen so far agrees that Zen 3 has taken the performance crown in everything now, including gaming, thats it.
I'd never recommend either of these boards for an unlocked Intel cpu but then again they weren't made for unlocked cpu's.
www.newegg.com/p/N82E16813157976
ASRock B560 Steel Legend $129.99
www.newegg.com/p/N82E16813157977
ASRock B560 Pro4 $109.99
Unlike the 10400F that's currently going for $145 on Newegg atm, the 11400F has native support for 3200MHz RAM and improved IPC.
As for the 11400F. We can only speculate on performance, price and release date, since we have no information any of those things. No doubt the 10400F is currently very good value for gaming, and likely the 11400F will be the same. If we ever get a 5600(non-x) I expect good value there as well, and wouldn't be surprised if we see a price drop on Zen 3 CPU's once these Intel CPU's come out, if there's sufficient stock of either.
I really don't see the point in bringing up niche youtube channels that only do specific tests unless you are really grasping for straws. There are plenty of other reviews that show that AMD has the gaming crown. Even if you don't agree with them you at the least have to admit that most of the time the difference between the two in gaming is within margin of error. Depending on the games you play (if you make such a large commitment to any single title), either processor could be a good choice (assuming again that gaming is the only driving factor behind your CPU purchasing decision).