Pre-production models of Intel’s upcoming desktop processors codenamed Rocket Lake-S have appeared in China. A user in the Chinese forum Chiphell shows authentic images and several benchmarks of low-clocked eight-core cores. Results from the integrated benchmark of the readout tool CPU-Z, which were created with higher clock frequencies, come from elsewhere.

The pictures at Chiphell show different heatspreaders and SMD capacitors than with previous Intel CPUs. The eight-core processor Core i9 – 11900 K should have a single threading score of around 695 and are just ahead of AMD’s Ryzen – 5000 – models like the Ryzen 7 5800 Set X, the 660 to 670 creates points. The higher clocked Ryzen 9 5950 X and Ryzen 5900 X come to just under 680 points. Rocket Lake-S could therefore achieve slightly higher frame rates in 3D games.

The still current Core i9 – 10900 K is clearly below the 16 mark . Intel achieves the increase in performance with the help of new Cypress Cove cores – one backported to 14 – nanometer technology 10 – nm architecture. In addition, there are high clock frequencies thanks to the mature 14 – nm process. With a fixed clock rate of 5.2 GHz, the pre-production model of the Core i9 – 11900 K should for the first time use the 700 Cracking the point mark of the CPU-Z benchmark.

Failed in multithreading As expected, Intel was beaten in the multithreading tests. With an overclocking of all CPU cores to 5.2 GHz, the Core i9 – 11900 K should be about 7200 Points come in the CPU-Z test. Even if there is still leeway due to the RAM, the processor can, as expected, at best just ahead of the ten-core Core i9 – 10900 K and the Ryzen 7 5800 X slide. AMD’s Ryzen 9 models with 12 and 16 Computing cores remain unmatched.

Intel will only get more than eight CPU cores again with the next generation Alder Lake-S, which pairs up to eight large, powerful cove cores with up to eight efficient atomic hearts.

(mma)