Intel Core i7-11700K Appears to Beat AMD in Geekbench 5

Source: Tom's Hardware added 29th Dec 2020

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As spotted by Leakbench, Intel’s unreleased Core i7-11700K has been ripped through the Geekbench 5 benchmark tool, and the alleged performance gains over last-gen parts are nothing to scoff at. 

Single-core, the chip jots down a score of 1807 points, with a crypto score of 5423 points. Multi-core, it notes down 10,673 points. For comparison, currently, in our test suite, the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X tops the Geekbench 5 Single-core charts with a score of 1713 points, making Intel’s Rocket Lake chip about 5.5% faster in single-threaded applications.

But, the catch to note with these scores is that Geekbench 5 uses AVX-512, which makes Intel’s scores slightly inflated as only Rocket Lake supports it. Consequently, just because Intel’s chip performs 5.5% faster in GeekBench 5, that does not mean it will perform faster than AMD’s Zen 3 chips in real-world, single-threaded applications as there are no applications that use this yet — and this is likely to remain so for quite some time to come. 

In multithreaded loads, AMD naturally takes a significant lead with our testing noting down a score of 14,471 points for the 16-core 5950X compared to the 10,673 pts in this leaked benchmark for the i7-11700K — but again, the AVX discrepancy means that the real world performance delta between the two will be bigger.

Because of this AVX-512 discrepancy, it also remains to be seen whether Rocket Lake will catch up with AMD’s chips for IPC in real-world use cases.

The Intel Core i7-11700K is expected to feature 8 cores and 16 threads on a base frequency of 3.6 GHz and boosting to 4.8 GHz. But, still being a 14nm CPU, despite the new architecture, power consumption is expected to be up there, with a 125 PL1 profile and 250W PL2 rating. 

Official word is that Rocket Lake will come out in Q1 2021, though we don’t yet know exactly when.

Read the full article at Tom's Hardware

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