Monday, March 8th 2021
Intel Rocket Lake Early Gaming Benchmarks Show Incremental Improvements
We have recently received some early gaming benchmarks for the upcoming Intel Core i7-11700K after German retailer MindFactory released the chip early. The creator of CapFrameX has managed to get their hands on one of these processors and has put it to the test comparing it with the Intel Core i9-10900K in some gaming benchmarks. Intel has promised double-digit IPC improvements with the new Rocket Lake generation of processors however if the results from this latest benchmark are representative of the wider picture those improvements might be a bit more modest then Intel claims.
The processors were paired with an RTX 3090 and 32 GB of 3200 MHz memory as this is the new stock maximum speed supported versus 2933 MHz on the Core i9-10900K. The two processors were put to the test in Crysis Remastered, Cyberpunk 2077, and Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order, with the i7-11700K coming ahead in all three tests by ~ 2% - 9%. These tests are unverified and might not be fully representative of performance but they give us a good indication of what Intel has to offer with these new 11th generation chips.
Source:
@CapFrameX
The processors were paired with an RTX 3090 and 32 GB of 3200 MHz memory as this is the new stock maximum speed supported versus 2933 MHz on the Core i9-10900K. The two processors were put to the test in Crysis Remastered, Cyberpunk 2077, and Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order, with the i7-11700K coming ahead in all three tests by ~ 2% - 9%. These tests are unverified and might not be fully representative of performance but they give us a good indication of what Intel has to offer with these new 11th generation chips.
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And looking at 720p and lower resolution gaming scores, I wonder if tech sites will focus on that score as much as they where doing in the past, when Intel was the clear winner.
Games and non-productivity or non-science software is not using AVX2 all that much, much less AVX-512 where power consumption concerns really creep in.
It costs 200€ tho, almost half.
Paying 350€+ for a 6c/12t in 2021 feels silly to me
Like this one or this one (oced vs oced though)
And your 4K low FPS claim is also wrong, I can easily get 200fps+ at 4K with competitive settings in any competitive shooter game
And resizeble bar support is coming for Z300 chipsettoo (well at least with MSI boards).
So yeah in any case 9900K win, not the mention the 1% low FPS which 5600X will no doubt suffer in the near future.
10900K at stock with DDR4-2933 memory
Average FPS: 105.9FPS
1% percentile: 83 FPS
(no 0.2% percentile)
New results: 108.8 and 74.8.
The hardware setup was probably the same. It is a relatively old game, no new patches, likely no driver tweaks since the original test. There is no built-in bench in this game, but CapeFrameX follows PCGH’s benchmarking guidelines, so there shouldn’t be much difference in benchmark runs.
And yet the new results show a 10% regression in minimum frame rates while average is improved by 3%.
Let’s just say I am super sceptical about the new results.
Seem too low for 1080p and 1440p, but suspiciously high for UHD.
?80fps on the AMD 5000 series at 1440p with a rtx3090, and in this benchmark the 10900k does 78 and the 11700k does 79.6, sooo not seen the problem here.