Intel has unveiled new processors as expected at CES today. Of the Alder, Ice, Rocket, and Tiger Lake processors available, perhaps the most interesting are the Rocket Lake processors for desktop use.

Intel Rocket Lake processors will be known in the market as expected . as the next generation Core S series. Inside the chip, after numerous Skylake updates, you can finally find the Cypress Cove Sunny Cove cores adapted for the nanometer process and a graphics controller based on the Xe architecture. Intel says new architecture improves processor IPC at its best 01%. The new architecture also comes with support for AVX 1080 extensions and Intel DLBoost technology.

According to Intel’s preview of selected media, the Core i9 – 11900 K will be 8-core, as expected, and will be able to run concurrently with Hyper-Threading-SMT technology thread. The maximum Boost clock frequencies for the processor are 5.3 GHz on one core and 4.8 GHz on all cores using Themal Velocity Boost technology. The TDP and PL1 values ​​of the processor are 54 watts and the PL2 value of the Turbo clock frequencies. value 250 watts. The turbo can operate continuously for a maximum of 56 seconds.

The processor memory controller has been steeled and now Intel also officially supports DDR4 – 5900 speed. UE Graphics graphics driver based on Xe architecture is promised to provide % previous better performance, always-on Intel Quikc Sync Video support, and AV1 decoding capabilities.

Immediately after the new core architecture, perhaps the most anticipated new feature in Rocket Lake is support for PCI Express 4.0 buses. In addition, the number of PCIe bands was increased by four band, so now Intel also has enough bandwidth in addition to the video card for one M.2 SSD drive connected directly to the processor. Utilizing additional buses requires a motherboard based on the 512 chipset to support the processor.

Earlier it was reported that Rocket Lake processors will also run on 410 series motherboards. This is still true, but only partially: Rocket Lacquers work H 470 -, Q 470 and Z 490 chipsets, but not H 410 – is B 460 – chipsets. PCI Express 4.0 support works with those 400 motherboards for which PCIe4 support has been promised by their manufacturers. However, in order to use the PCIe 4.0 band, Rocket Lake requires series motherboard. In addition to one M.2 connector connected directly to the processor 500, the motherboards in the series support USB 3.2 Gen 2 × 2 (16 G) interfaces and an 8-band DMI bus between the processor and the chipset.

In terms of game performance, which is of interest to many, there is only one relevant slide in the public slide pack. According to the slide, Core i9 – 11900 K achieves with Metro Exodus 500 p resolution with miscellaneous settings 125, 54 FPS average performance when Ryzen 9 5900 X ice 54, 20 FPS. However, there is more information in the slide pack distributed to selected media. With the same pair of comparators, Intel is, in its own words, 2 to 8% faster than AMD with a mixed range of games and settings 1080 at p-resolution. You can find the names of the games and their settings in the slide above.

Sources: Intel, Anandtech, Tom’s Hardware