Months before the expected market launch, Intel has its first own benchmarks at the consumer electronics fair CES 2021 next desktop processor generation Rocket Lake-S alias Core i – 11000. The eight-core Core i9 – 11900 K leads the CPU family and, according to Intel, should be 2 to 8 percent ahead of the Ryzen, depending on the game tested 9 5900 Set X – AMD’s fastest player processor. This would make the lead more measurable than noticeable.

Intel measured the biggest difference of 8 percent in the strategy game “Total War: Three Kingdoms” . It was 5 percent in the shooters “Gears of War 5” and “Metro Exodus”. In the action role-playing game “Cyberpunk 2021” the lead remained 4 percent, in “Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla” only 2 percent. All tests were made with DDR4 – 3200 – RAM and Nvidia’s GeForce graphics card RTX 3080 under Full HD resolution (1920 × 1080 pixels).

In Intel’s self-created game benchmarks, the Core i9 – 11900 K may be slightly faster than AMD’s Ryzen 9 5900 X.

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Cypress Cove for more IPC Intel increases gaming performance with the help of a new CPU architecture: The so-called Cypress Cove cores are the first major new development in the desktop since Skylake (Core i – 6000) from the year 2015 and put a 14 – Nanometer port from Ice Lake (Core i – 1000 G). The computing power per cycle (Instructions per Cycle, IPC) increases according to Intel by 19 percent, but only in the synthetic benchmark SPEC_CPU 2017 measured and no cross-section of several programs.

Added Persistently high clock frequencies: Like the ten-core Core i9 – 10900 K, a single CPU core of the Core i9 – 11900 Accelerate K up to 5.3 GHz. The all-core turbo is 4.8 GHz.

The computing power per cycle of Rocket Lake-S should be compared to its predecessors by 19 Percent rise.

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Intel buys the whole thing with a high power consumption, because the Thermal Design Power (TDP) remains as with the Core i9 – 10900 K at 125 Watt. Within the power limit 2 (PL2), the Core i9 – 11900 K up to 56 for seconds 250 Consume watts – motherboards can extend the limits even more. Mind you, the Core i9 – 11900 K has two fewer CPU cores than its predecessor Core i9 – 10900 K. So the new top model is thirstier per computing core – probably a consequence of the backporting to 14- instead of 10- nm technology. The cove cores are made wider in order to increase the computing power, which costs energy.

Subdued expectations Manufacturer benchmarks usually show the upper end of what can be expected in terms of performance. And even 2–8 percent in CPU-limited games should be noticeable in the rarest of cases – in addition, the graphics card often limits the frame rate, not the processor.

AMD still has the advantage of additional CPU cores so that the 12 – Kerner Ryzen 9 5900 X is more future-proof. The Core i9 – 11900 K cannot achieve AMD’s average application performance due to the lack of CPU cores. Intel could score points through prices and availability – there is no information about the former and the market launch of Rocket Lake-S is not expected until March 2021 occur.

(mma)