Wednesday, March 10th 2021
Intel Core i9 and Core i7 "Rocket Lake" Lineup Leaked, Claims Beating Ryzen 9 5900X
Intel is planning to debut its 11th Generation Core "Rocket Lake-S" desktop processor family with a fairly large selection of SKUs, according to leaked company slides shared by VideoCardz, which appear to be coming from the same source as an earlier report from today that talk about double-digit percent gaming performance gains over the previous generation. Just the Core i9 and Core i7 series add up to 10 SKUs between them. These include unlocked- and iGPU-enabled "K" SKUs, unlocked but iGPU-disabled "KF," locked but iGPU-enabled parts, and locked and iGPU-disabled "F" parts.
With "Rocket Lake-S," Intel appears to have hit a ceiling with the number of CPU cores it can cram onto a die alongside an iGPU, on the 75 mm x 75 mm LGA package, while retaining its 14 nm silicon fabrication node. Both the Core i9-11900 series and the Core i7-10700 series are 8-core/16-thread parts, with an identical amount of cache. They are differentiated on the basis of clock speeds as tabled below, and the lack of the Thermal Velocity Boost feature on the Core i7 parts. The Core i5 series "Rocket Lake-S" parts are reportedly 6-core/12-thread.
Some additional game performance slides were leaked to the web. The first one below (also posted earlier today), deals with comparisons between the i9-11900K and the previous-generation flagship, the 10-core i9-10900K. The second slide deals with i9-11900K compared to the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-core processor, where it's claiming anywhere between 2% to 8% performance gains, across a broader selection of games than the comparison to the i9-10900K. The performance lead gets higher with multi-threaded strategy games like "Total War," but slims down to 2% with first-person/third-person games such as "Far Cry: New Dawn" and "Assassin's Creed Valhalla."
Sources:
VideoCardz, HXL (Twitter)
With "Rocket Lake-S," Intel appears to have hit a ceiling with the number of CPU cores it can cram onto a die alongside an iGPU, on the 75 mm x 75 mm LGA package, while retaining its 14 nm silicon fabrication node. Both the Core i9-11900 series and the Core i7-10700 series are 8-core/16-thread parts, with an identical amount of cache. They are differentiated on the basis of clock speeds as tabled below, and the lack of the Thermal Velocity Boost feature on the Core i7 parts. The Core i5 series "Rocket Lake-S" parts are reportedly 6-core/12-thread.
99 Comments on Intel Core i9 and Core i7 "Rocket Lake" Lineup Leaked, Claims Beating Ryzen 9 5900X
Seriously, I'll not buy. I'll not buy AMD either, I'm not paying 300€ for 6 cores in 2021. I'll stick to my 3600 and buy a used 5900X some years later...
11900K performing within 5% of the 5900X is not enough reason to look away from the 4 extra cores that 5900X possess, even when games don't need more than 8 cores.
www.newegg.com/intel-core-i5-10600k-core-i5-10th-gen/p/N82E16819118124
11700K defaults to Gear 2 on 3200 ram. 11900K defaults to Gear 1. Artificial segmentation to make the 11900K look better at default settings?
Obviously not the 48EU or 96EU Xe in Tiger Lake, but if the 32EU on the 11400 can match the Renoir/Cezanne Vega 7, might be in for some good news for HTPCs.
Actually, that's a good point - did Intel ever name Tiger Lake's GPU with something other than "Intel Xe"?
The only real thing from these slides is the "Massive Power" they used.
Edit: Ok, evernessince already mentioned the same. :)
Did anyone watch the live WAN Show over at Linus tech tips? when he went looking for a 5800X to show it cost alot more then a 11700K and then found it in stock at MSRP price? Made my laugh lol
Yea they should have skipped Rocket Lake and moved on, but Intel.
Although for gaming on a budget I would probably opt for a 11400/F + B560 combo in the near future. Unless AMD pulls out the regular R5-5600 at a very attractive price point.
Sadly i don't think we'll see a cheaper 5600 model, as of lately they are just increasing prices everywhere. No wonder they introduced the pricier top 3600 XT model before Zen3, so their 5600X can be sold even higher.
To me it seems AMD is starting to become a premium gaming HW designer company. According to them "Where Gaming Begins" is at 479$. LMAO. Where are the midrange products with midrange prices on both cpu and gpu front? They becames just as greedy as the other companies.
the 1800x was a 500 dollar 8core cpu, 8 cores!!! you had to pay 3x that amount for an intel (extreme) 6 core.
Now that they are winning in every category, I think tis only fair to up the prices.
And sure currently you might say the gap is too big, but factor into that covid, demand, competition at TSMC, competition of themselves (consoles and gpu's) and it makes sense as annoying as it may be.
I understand the situation is pretty sh*tty, but currently Intel can sell cheapish and good CPUs (for gaming at least), so naturally ppl will start to look for their products, because reasonable ppl are not enemies of their own wallet.