In addition to MSI, EVGA has also unveiled some of its motherboard models with the new Intel Z chipset 590 for computers with 11th generation Intel Core “Rocket Lake-S” processors announced yesterday as the Core i9 – 11900 K .
EVGA Z 590 DARK and EVGA Z 590 FTW WIFI will be, at least for now, the first motherboards of the company for this new generation of processors, keeping the LGA socket 1200 and adding support for technologies such as PCI Express 4.0.
ARGB, PCIe 4.0, overclock and WiFi 6 connectivity are some of the hallmarks of these Z boards 590 EVGA
The EVGA Z 590 DARK will hit the market with a power system of 22 phases in the VRMs to feed the processor and RAM and allow it to be performed advanced overclocking. It will feature a PCB layout of 10 layers and support for NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSDs in Its three M.2 ports, dual 2.5 GbE Intel connectivity, WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.1. All decorated by a housing with RGB.
By another side the EVGA Z 590 FTW WiFi will have the Same support for PCIe 4.0, WiFi 6, BT 5.1, but the VRMs system for power is reduced to 17 phases on an 8 layer PCB.
We will still have to wait to know its price and availability.
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Intel’s CES 2021 conference was rather busy as the company unveiled and teased a slew of new platforms and products. Sadly we didn’t get all the details, but the rough preview we were given looks exciting.
Let’s start with arguably the more interesting one – Alder Lake. The platform is set to go against Apple’s ARM M1 chip. Intel says it uses a hybrid architecture similar to ARM’s BIG.little by utilizing high-performance cores along with high-efficiency ones. However, Intel wants this platform to be the foundation of future desktop and notebook processors instead of focusing on mobile platforms.
These chips will likely hit the market in the second half of this year and will use an improved version of the 10nm SuperFin manufacturing process and unlike the other platforms announced today, the Alder Lake will be part of the 12th Generation Intel processors.
In the current 11th Gen CPUs, Intel teased its Tiger Lake 35W and 45W processors for laptops. They are essentially the 15W and 35W Tiger Lake variants but boosted to 35W and 45W, respectively, enabling them to reach 5.0 GHz clock speeds. They will deliver up to 8 cores and features such as Thunderbolt 4, Wi-Fi 6/6E and PCIe Gen 4 to support high-performance dedicated GPUs.
For the desktop PC enthusiasts, Intel teased its Rocket Lake Core i9-11900K CPU supporting PCIe 4.0 and bumping up the IPC (instructions per cycle) by 19% in an attempt to ultimately snatch back the gaming crown from AMD.
The 10nm SuperFin process will be powering up low-end and devices for education in the form of Jasper Lake. The Pentium Silver and Celeron processor lineups based on the new architecture promise a 35% performance boost in most applications and 78% better graphics performance.
And finally, Intel introduced Tiger Lake for the business consumers splitting its products into two lineups – vPro and Evo vPro. The latter is basically vPro plus Intel’s current Evo platform. Both offer enhanced security and business features as they usually do.
All of the new products are expected to come around this quarter except for Alder Lake – they will arrive sometime in the second half of this year.
Intel has revealed some more details of its new generation of Intel Core Rocket Lake-S processors for desktop computers. A new architecture that increases its IPC (instructions processed per cycle) by a 19% and that improves the graphic performance of its Integrated GPUs by up to 50% compared to the last generation .
The Core i9 – 11900 K will be the top of the range with 8 cores, less than the last generation, and will arrive during this first quarter of the year.
The Intel Core i9 – 11900 K reduces the number of cores of its predecessor, leaving only 8
The company has shown the specifications of the most powerful model, the Intel Core i9 – 11900 K , a processor that loses two cores compared to its predecessor, the 10900 K to stay with only 8 cores and 16 threads with a maximum clock rate of 5.3 GHz Boost on one core and 4.8 GHz Boost on all 8 cores .
Now support memories DDR4 – 3200 natively and finally, PCI Express 4.0 support arrives with 20 direct lines in the CPU.
All integrated with support for the new Intel chipsets 400 with support for “real” USB 3.2, that is, USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 a 20 Gbps, but maintaining the support with the chipsets 400 of the last series.
Intel has also shown performance details comparing the Core i9 – 11900 K with the AMD Ryzen 9 5900 X and completing what he taught us yesterday morning where the company claimed that its 8-core processor was superior to an AMD alternative of 12 cores.
In Intel results, the i9 – 11900 K outperforms 5900 x by 2% in the Assassin’s Creed Valhalla a 1080 p and reaches 8% in the new Total War under DX 12 already 1080 p. We will have to wait to see how it behaves in resolutions more typical of equipment in this range.
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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.
(Image: Intel)
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.
(Image: Intel)
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.
Intel has just published their CES conference 2021 in which they unveil their new eleventh Intel Core processors generation for desktop computers together some details.
This new line of processors promises an increase in IPC or instructions per cycle, the performance that a processor is capable of offering per each clock cycle, of 19% with respect to the last generation, thanks to the use of the new architecture Intel Rocket Lake-S with Cypress Cove cores.
According to Intel itself, in games these processors will surpass the AMD alternative. Specifically, they have shown the Metro Exodus with a RTX 3080 from Nvidia together with an Intel i7 with 8 cores of this new generation against an AMD Ryzen with 12 cores (we assume the Ryzen 9 5900 x) and the same RAM and GPU configuration.
Rocket Lake-S brings with it support for PCI Express 4.0 on intel platform
They will also incorporate new artificial intelligence capabilities, Intel Deep Learning Boost . PCI Express 4.0 will finally appear on the Intel platform , with 16 PCIe 4.0 lanes for the CPU . Let us remember that these processors will use the LGA socket 1200 under a new line of Intel chipsets of the series 500.
The company has shown emphasis on its capabilities for games, with specific optimizations for these types of applications.
As expected, there will be three series of these processors, with Core i9 for the highest range, followed by Core i7 and Core i5.
We will have to wait for the company to give more details to know all the news and models of this new range. The arrival of previously leaked models such as the Intel Core i9 – 11900 K, with 8 cores and 16 threads. Except for surprise, they will be manufactured to 14 nanometers and will have Intel Xe graphics cores.
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According to Intel the new Core processors of 11th generation desktops, codenamed Rocket Lake, are faster at gaming than Ryzen 5000. A Core i9 – 11900 K beats a 5900 X 2% to 8% in Full HD.
by Manolo De Agostini published 11 January 2021 , at 23 : 38 in the Processors channel Intel Core Rocket Lake
To CES 2021 Intel announced arrival by the end of the quarter of the new 11th Generation Intel Core desktop processors , codenamed Rocket Lake . Almost everything has been known about these processors for some time: products at 10 nanometers, offer up to 8 core and 16 threads architecture based Cypress Cove , a Sunny Cove project re-adaptation of the Ice Lake mobile chips to 10 nanometers. Next to the CPU cores we find a welcome novelty, namely a integrated graphics chip based on Xe architecture , a net step forward compared to Gen 9.5 architecture.
Less core then , you go down from 10 of the current Core i9s to the 8 of the successors, but an improved architecture compared to frequencies for the flag bearer Core i9 – 11900 K quite similar to Core i9 – 10900 K: we are talking about a maximum of 5.3 GHz with one core active and 4.8 GHz with all units active . Regarding the TDP, Intel indicates a PL1 value of 125 W, while the PL2 with a Tau of 56 seconds is equal to 250 W.
The new proposals offer 20 PCI Express 4.0 lanes , four more than previous models, in enabling high-speed connection to storage and a dedicated GPU, as well as a host of other features to improve performance under loads of artificial intelligence. Memory controller improves further with native DDR4 support – 3200 .
In terms of compatibility , the new CPUs can be installed both on new motherboards based on chipset of the series 500 (Z 590, B 560, H 510 ) and on serious proposals 400 , although not all: green light for Z models 490, Q 470 and H 470, while nothing to do for B 460 and H 410 (at least according to Intel).
According to the Santa Clara, the new Rocket Lake CPUs guarantee an improvement in IPC performance (instructions per clock cycle) of 19% , comparing the new Core i9 – 11900 K with the current 10900 K. IPC performance is an important aspect that gives us the pulse of performance in areas where the processor uses few threads, such as video games.
To demonstrate the breakthrough in gaming, Intel showed a test of Metro Exodus in which it compared a new 8-core Rocket Lake CPU with a Ryzen 9 5900 X from AMD, both paired with a GeForce RTX 3080: the Intel system achieved the best performance , arriving at 156, 54 Average FPS in the test against i 147, 43 AMD PC FPS. The company has published a chart showing the results in other games as well, with Full HD performance 2% to 8% higher than the chip from AMD.
Intel during approximately 30 – one minute virtual conference CES 2021 presented mainly the new Tiger Lake-H processors 35 for ultra-slim gaming laptops with NVIDIA GeForce RTX cards 3000. There was also room for specifics about the Rocket Lake and Alder Lake desktop units. Both family of processors are expected to debut in 2021. Rocket Lake will go first, along with the top Intel Core i9 processor – 11900 K. During the presentation, Intel compared the chip to the AMD Ryzen 9 5900 X in Metro: Exodus. After the conference, however, more information about the new unit leaked into the network, so we share it immediately. Intel in the new presentation compared the performance of Core i9 – 11900 K to AMD Ryzen 9 5900 X. How is the clash of the flagships of both manufacturers?
Intel compared the performance of the Core i9 processor – 11900 K to AMD Ryzen 9 5900 X in several popular AAA games. Although the architecture of Cypress Cove prevails in each of them, the differences are at most a few percent.
Intel Tiger Lake-H 35 officially presented – processors for laptops with NVIDIA RTX 3000. New information about Rocket Lake-S
Intel has finally confirmed that the flagship processor from the Rocket Lake-S family – Core i9 – 11900 K – will be equipped with 8 cores and 16 threads. The maximum clock for one core is 5.3 GHz, while Turbo for all active cores is 4.8 GHz. Rocket Lake-S is the latest generation using 14 nm technological process. Instead of the Skylake architecture, however, we will get the newer Cypress Cove. It offers up to 19% higher IPC than the Skylake architecture, which is expected to translate into noticeably higher single-threaded performance.
Intel Core i9 processor – 11900 K will receive a 2-channel DDR4 memory controller 3200 MHz, advanced Intel UHD Graphics based on the Xe architecture (32 EU) and 20 PCIe 4.0 lanes, which can be used simultaneously for a graphics card and an SSD. In its latest presentation, Intel compared the performance of Core i9 – 11900 K to AMD Ryzen 9 5900 X in such titles as Cyberpunk 2077, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Metro Exodus, Watch Dogs: Legion or Total War: Three Kingdoms. The comparison was made using the NVIDIA GeForce RTX graphics card 3080. Depending on the game, the differences range from 2 to 8 percent in favor of the top Intel unit. The smallest differences can be found in Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla (2%), while the largest in the Total War strategy (8%). The Intel Rocket Lake-S processors will be on sale in late March this year.
Intel says its upcoming Core i9 – 11900 K beats AMD’s Ryzen 9 5900 X 1080 with a p-resolution of 2 to 8%
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.
In addition to the presentation of Tiger Lake-H with four cores, 5 GHz and up to 35 W has Intel talked about other future processors. The launch of Rocket Lake-S in the first quarter was promised for all desktop users.
So far, Intel has spoken of an IPC plus in the double-digit percentage range. This information has now been specified. Compared to the Core i9 – 11900 K should the Core i9 – 11900 K an IPC- Plus of up to 19 % exhibit. Compared to Ryzen 9 05841 X, Intel aims to regain the crown in most games. The 11. Generation of core processors alias Rocket Lake-S will rely on a new micro-architecture. This is called Cypress Cove and is a backport of Sunny Cove from 10 on 14 nm. In addition, the Rocket Lake S processors should have an integrated graphics unit based on the Xe architecture preserved. This is probably the Xe-LP expansion, as it is also used in the Tiger Lake processors.
The Core i9 – 11900 K will have eight cores – two less than the Core i9 10900 K is the case. In terms of multi-threaded performance, the Rocket Lake-S could well be a small step backwards in extreme cases. Intel specifies a maximum boost clock of 5.3 GHz for the top model. If all eight cores are used, it should still be 4.8 GHz.
The memory controller of the Rocket Lake S processors now also supports DDR4 – 3200, with which Intel in the validation of its controller to AMD unlocks. Of course, the previous processors could address the memory faster, but Intel only validated it up to DDR4 – 2933.
Rocket Lake-S offers a platform based on the existing LGA 1200 especially the support of PCI-Express 4.0. Overall, the new processors should 20 provide PCIe 4.0 lanes so that a graphics card and an NVMe SSD can be connected with the full number of lanes.
The new chipsets of the 500 – Series (Z 590, H570, B 560 and H 510) offer a doubling of the connection. Intel’s Direct Media Interface (DMI 3.0) is drilled out from four to eight lanes and should therefore have a transfer rate of 8 GT / s (7, 86 GB / s) must be shown.
More details about Alder Lake
Also a Intel has lost a few words about Alder Lake, the next generation in terms of technology ch the x 86 – architecture and the broader change to a hybrid design. In the second half of the year 2020 Intel wants to combine high-performance cores with particularly efficient ones.
Alder Lake will be the first processors to be developed in an improved version of 10 nm SuperFin. In addition, Intel describes Alder Lake as the foundation of the future desktop and notebook processors, so that we will see corresponding processors in these two market segments.
Designed for “enthusiast-level gaming in laptops as thin as 16 millimetres.”, Intel has announced its first three Tiger Lake-H processors. Additionally, the company also shed some light on its upcoming Rocket Lake-S and Alder Lake-S processor architectures, including the release windows for both product series.
Starting with Tiger Lake-H35, here Intel claims it has created a new laptop segment, offering ultraportable laptops (as slim as 16mm) with “enthusiast level gaming prowess”. Featuring PCIe Gen4 and Intel Killer Wi-Fi 6/6E technology, the new Tiger Lake-H35 series will consist of three SKUs with up to 4x cores, 8x threads, 35W TDP design, and a maximum operating frequency of 5.0GHz. Tiger Lake-H processors featuring up to 8x cores, 16x threads, 20x PCIe lanes, and a 45W TDP will come later this quarter. By the first half of 2021, Intel plans to have over 40 laptops available in this market from partners such as Acer, MSI, Asus, Lenovo, HP, Dell, and Vaio.
Intel 11th Gen Core processors for ultraportable gaming will support DDR4-3200 or LPDDR4/x-4267, Thunderbolt 4, and Resizable BAR. Thanks to Intel’s SuperFin architecture, Tiger Lake-H35 processors will run at up to 5.0GHz at 35W, offering around 15% more performance than their predecessors. At 15W, Intel says these chips will offer about 9% more performance in single-core workloads and over 40% more performance in multi-thread workloads when compared to Intel 11th Gen Core processors. We are also told the current flagship Tiger Lake-H35 processor can outperform the Ryzen 9 4900H by up 30% in the SPECRATE *2017_int_base single-thread benchmark.
The following table details the first Tiger Lake-H processors to be released:
Name
Cores/Threads
L3 cache
cTDP Up
cTDP Down
Base clock (cTDP Up)
Base clock (cTDP Down)
All-Core Turbo
2-Core Turbo
1-Core Turbo
Intel Core i7-11375H Special Edition
4/8
12MB
35W
28W
3.3GHz
3.0GHz
4.3GHz
4.8GHz
5.0GHz (ITBM 3.0)
Intel Core i7-11370H
4/8
12MB
35W
28W
3.3GHz
3.0GHz
4.3GHz
4.8GHz
4.8GHz
Intel Core i5-11300H
4/8
8MB
35W
28W
3.1GHz
2.6GHz
4.0GHz
4.4GHz
4.4GHz
At CES 2021, Intel also talked about the upcoming Rocket Lake-S processor architecture led by the Core i9-11900K. When compared to the 10th Gen Core desktop series, Intel claims its Rocket Lake-S processors will offer a 19% IPC improvement “for the highest frequency cores”. Intel Rocket Lake-S CPUs will be available in Q1 2021.
Besides Rocket Lake-S, there was also some talk of Alder Lake-S. This series is scheduled to release in the second half of 2021, and it will be Intel’s first architecture to make use of “a new, enhanced version of 10nm SuperFin”. Intel also confirmed that Alder Lake-S CPUs will consist of both high-performance (big) cores and high-efficiency (small) cores, meaning that it will feature a hybrid design similar to its Lakefield processors.
KitGuru says: Will you wait for Rocket Lake-S or Alder Lake-S processors before upgrading your system?
Intel fired back at AMD’s Ryzen 5000 today at CES 2021 with its Rocket Lake-S flagship, claiming the new chip takes back the gaming performance crown. Intel says that its 14nm Rocket Lake processors will come to market this quarter with a 19% IPC increase born of the new Cypress Cove architecture, matching AMD’s IPC increase with its Ryzen 5000 series processors. Intel pairs this new backported architecture with its 14nm process, touting boost speeds up to a dual-core 5.3 GHz, all of which the company says will wrest the gaming lead back from the fastest gaming chip on the market, AMD’s potent 5900X, and perhaps shake up our Best CPU for Gaming and CPU Benchmark Hierarchy in the process.
Intel also claims the new chips, courtesy of the new Xe Graphics architecture, will deliver a 50% gen-on-gen increase in integrated GPU gaming performance.
(Image credit: Intel)
Intel has slowly teased bits of info about Rocket Lake, but here’s probably the most important new bit of details: Intel says the 8C/16T Core i9-11900K reclaims the gaming performance crown from AMD’s Ryzen 9 5900X at 1080p. The margins are slim, though. Intel ran these tests with an EVGA RTX 3080 XC3 graphics card, and the company’s claimed lead ranges from 2% to 8% (roughly a 4% advantage overall). That paints a picture of a closely-contested battle in gaming performance between Rocket Lake and Zen 3, particularly at higher resolutions.
Intel’s traditionally higher overclocking ceilings could prove to be an advantage against the Ryzen 5000 processors — it’s important to remember that Intel tested the Rocket Lake chip at stock settings. If these slim deltas play out in our testing and the Intel chips overclock well, pricing might be the determining factor if you’re on the hunt for a gaming processor in 2021. Unfortunately, Intel hasn’t shared pricing or availability information yet (the chips are rumored to land in mid-March). Still, the company has detailed a few other new features for the Rocket Lake series.
(Image credit: Intel)
AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Processor Competition
Zen 3 Ryzen 5000 Series Processors
Cores/Threads
Base/Boost Freq.
TDP
Ryzen 9 5900X
12 / 24
3.7 / 4.8
105W
Intel Core i9-11900K
8 / 16
? / 5.3
150W?
Core i9-10900K / F
10 / 20
3.7 / 5.3
125W
Ryzen 7 5800X
8 / 16
3.8 / 4.7
105W
Core i9-10850K
10 / 20
3.6 / 5.2
95W
Core i7-10700K / F
8 / 16
3.8 / 5.1
125W
Much of Intel’s Rocket Lake disclosure covers information we already knew, but there are a few new tidbits. Intel’s Core i9-11900K is the company’s Rocket Lake flagship and comes with 5.3 GHz dual-core and 4.8 GHz all-core boost frequencies, matching the previous-gen 10900K. It’s noteworthy that these are Thermal Velocity Boost frequencies that only activate if the processor is under a certain temperature limit, but most motherboard makers ignore those limits anyway. That means the chips will likely operate at these speeds regardless of temperature limits, at least on higher-end motherboards.
The 11900K comes with only eight cores and sixteen threads, a step back from the 10-core Comet Lake i9 models. Intel says the eight cores ‘maximizes real-world performance,’ but that decision also stems from the backported architecture.
“Backporting” is a method that allows Intel to take a new design built on a smaller process node, in this case 10nm, and etch it on an older, larger node (in this case, 14nm). Intel backported the 10nm Sunny Cove cores found in Ice Lake processors to the less-dense 14nm process to create the Cypress Cove architecture in Rocket Lake, leaving the chip designers with fewer transistors to make the new chips. As a result, Intel had to remove two cores; there simply wasn’t enough room in the chip package for a larger die.
Intel claims that Rocket Lake’s IPC and frequency improvements offset the removal of the two cores, implying the chip will offer the same performance in threaded work as the ten-core 10900K. The company has previously shared that the chips feature a 150W PL1 power rating (at the base frequency), a 25W increase over the 10900K, and an identical 250W PL2 (boost) rating. Intel also says the chips come with new overclocking features that it will explain in the future. We’re pretty sure that includes support for the new sub-ambient coolers from EKWB QuantumX Delta TEC and Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML360 Sub-Zero that Intel helped design to bring exotic cooling to the masses.
The Rocket Lake-S chips are backward compatible with 400-series chipsets, and the PCIe 4.0 connection will work on existing motherboards that support the interface. Most Comet Lake chips are forward-compatible with the new 500-series motherboards that will debut today, the lone exception being Celeron models with 2MB of CPU cache.
Rocket Lake also brings the debut of Intel’s Xe LP graphics for its desktop chips. Intel says it added a ‘third more’ EUs to the chips to boost performance up to 50% over the previous-gen UHD 630 graphics. It isn’t clear if the increased EU count is over the existing UHD 630 graphics, which would mean we’re looking at chips with a maximum of a lackluster 32 EUs, or if it represents an increase over the Tiger Lake chips, which would beef up the Rocket Lake processors with 128 EUs.
We hope it’s the latter, as 32 EUs would hamper gaming performance significantly. On the other hand, doing 128 Xe EUs on 14nm would use up a considerable amount of die space, and most desktop users (at least in the DIY space) will simply use a dedicated GPU anyway. Notably, Intel’s test notes say the margin of error for its performance claim is +/- 15%, so we’ll have to wait for real-world testing. Intel’s Xe graphics also bring in-built AV1 decode acceleration, which is helpful because the codec reduces bandwidth up to 20% for video streaming (such as 4K and 8K content).
Intel also bumped up memory support from DDR4-2933 to DDR4-3200, matching AMD’s Ryzen, and added support for 20 lanes of PCIe 4.0, a needed addition that comes two long years after AMD led the industry with the first PC chips to support the interface. Intel also reworked the internal PCIe subsystem to accommodate the x4 direct connection (the chips now support 20 lanes) for M.2 SSDs to the CPU. Intel also widened the DMI 3.0 connection (the pathway that connects the CPU and chipset) from four lanes to eight, doubling throughput up to a theoretical ~7.86 GB/s.
Rocket Lake’s wider x8 DMI connection is only active on ‘select’ 500-series chipsets, so the chip defaults to a x4 connection on B560 and H510 motherboards. Comet Lake chips also only use a x4 connection on all 500-series motherboards, and the same x4 connection applies for Rocket Lake processors in 400-series motherboards.
Given the socket pinout, it’s doubtful that the widened DMI connection would work when you drop a Rocket Lake chip into a 400-series board, or when you use a Comet Lake processor in a 500-series motherboard, but we’ve followed up with Intel for further information.
The wider DMI connection should help with bottlenecks for devices attached to the chipset, like SSDs in RAID. However, the most recent unofficial information points to PCIe 3.0 support for devices connected to the chipset, and not PCIe 4.0. We do know that the chipset now features an integrated USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 controller, doubling support over the existing interface to 20Gbps.
Intel also demoed the new Hitman 3, an Intel-sponsored title that supports a new feature that tests your CPU and adjusts settings ‘on Intel hardware,’ dialing up features like destruction physics, NPC density and 3D spatial audio through the engine’s ‘brick’ system. As a result, this system turns on automatically for PCs that have a CPU that passes a certain performance threshold.
Intel claims the 11th-Gen Rocket Lake i9-11900K offers up to 7% more performance in Hitman 3 than the 10th-Gen Comet Lake 10900K, but didn’t specify if the performance jump was due to the new features, or if that stems from the natural benefits of Rocket Lake’s higher performance. Hitman 3 comes to market this month.
Oddly, Intel also touted its ‘new’ Always-On QuickSync Video. This feature allows Xe Graphics to run concurrently with a discrete GPU so you can offload some workloads, like video streaming with QuickSync, to alleviate the burden on your discrete GPU. This feature has already been around for several years, but it required BIOS support, and you had to manually enable the integrated graphics unit after you installed a video card. Intel says the technique is now a supported and validated configuration that’s enabled by default in the BIOS.
Rocket Lake also supports Intel’s Deep Learning Boost (DLBoost) and VNNI features, which require support for AVX-512 instructions, to speed up AI workloads. Intel has helped enable the software ecosystem to better take advantage of the explosive performance benefits. Adobe’s recent suite of updates is a prime example of the improvements we can expect as AI becomes more broadly adopted for PC workloads.
Intel hasn’t shared detailed specifications, launch dates, or pricing, though the company did say that it was launching eight new high-performance desktop PC chips. We’ll update as more information becomes available.
Intel’s new flagship Core i9-11900K processor will arrive in the first quarter of 2021. The chipmaker has provided the latest preview for its first 11th Gen (Rocket Lake-S) desktop chips at CES today. Headlined by the flagship Core i9-11900K, the new chips are said to bring up to 19 percent higher IPC (instructions per cycle), up to 50 percent better integrated graphics, and better AI performance.
And while Intel isn’t quite ready to take the lid off the full 11th Gen Rocket Lake-S lineup just yet, it did preview the flagship Core i9 model: an eight-core, 16-thread chipset with boosted clock speeds up to a whopping 5.3GHz. The processor also includes support for DDR4 RAM at 3,200MHz, a total of 20 PCIe 4.0 lanes, and even backwards compatibility with Intel’s 400 Series chipsets. Unfortunately, there’s no word on pricing or a release date for the new model just yet.
Despite the 11th Gen moniker, though, the new Rocket Lake-S chips are still technically 14nm chips — they don’t use the 10nm process. However, they do feature Intel’s Cypress Cove cores, which bring over the 10nm cores brought back to 14nm, allowing for faster speeds along with Intel’s faster Xe integrated graphics.
According to Intel, the drop in core count compared to last year’s Core i9-10900K (which had 10 cores and 20 threads) is due to that move (the 10nm chips are currently only designed for up to eight cores right now), although it promises that the overall performance on the new 11th Gen model will still be better.
There’s no official release date yet for the upcoming Rocket Lake-S chips, but Intel promises that they’ll be released in the first quarter of 2021.
Intel has just published its CES conference 2021 in which they unveil their new 11th generation Intel Core processors for desktop computers together some details.
This new line of processors promises an increase in the IPC or instructions per cycle, the performance that a processor is capable of offering for each clock cycle, of 16% compared to the last generation, thanks to the use of the new architecture Intel Rocket Lake-S with Cypress Cove cores.
According to Intel itself, in games these processors will outperform the alternative from AMD. Specifically, they have shown the Metro Exodus with a RTX 3080 from Nvidia together with an Intel i7 with 8 cores of this new generation against an AMD Ryzen 7 with 12 cores and the same RAM and GPU settings.
Rocket Lake-S brings with it support for PCI Express 4.0 on intel platform
They will also incorporate new artificial intelligence capabilities, Intel Deep Learning Boost . PCI Express 4.0 will finally appear on the Intel platform, with 20 PCIe 4.0 lanes for the CPU . Recall that these processors will use the LGA socket 1200 under a new line of Intel chipsets of the series 500.
The company has shown emphasis in its capabilities for games, with specific optimizations for this type of applications.
As expected, there will be three series of these processors, with Core i9 for the highest range, followed by Core i7 and Core i5.
We will have to wait for the company to give more details to know all the news and models of this new range. The arrival of previously leaked models such as the Intel Core i9 – 11900 K, with 8 cores and 16 threads. Except for surprise, they will be manufactured to 14 nanometers and will feature Intel Xe graphics cores.
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The Taiwanese company MSI is preparing for CES 2021 two conferences – one of them was called MSIology: The Ultimate Shockwave, which is associated with the upcoming gaming laptops and turns out to be the ancient culture of the Babylonians as the leitmotif. Information about the laptop, which will be prepared in accordance with the above guiding idea, has entered the network. It’s about the GE model 76 Raider, which has not yet appeared on the network. It will be the second new laptop, after the MSI GS 76 Stealth, to be launched with new GeForce RTX cards 3000. The manufacturer, however, is very much on the side of Intel and it cannot be expected that the upcoming top notebooks will offer processors other than Intel Comet Lake-H.
During the MSIology conference: The Ultimate Shockwave , MSI will present both the regular version of the GE notebook 76 Raider, as well as a visually pimped version, referring in a way to the ancient culture of the Babylonians.
Already 13 MSIology: The Ultimate Shockwave will be held on January. It will apply to upcoming laptops based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX graphics cards 3000. A few days before the event, information about the devices presented there was released to the network. The biggest new feature will be 17, MSI GE 3-inch notebook 76 Raider. The default version visually will not differ from the smaller GE model 66 Raider which went on sale last year. A limited edition will also be available for sale, visually modeled in part on Babylonian culture. However, there will also be some characteristic accents, i.e. the image of a dragon on the outer cover. In this version, the MSI logo has been moved to the right side – it is exactly the same logo that appeared in the Summit and Prestige business lines from 2020 year.
MSI GE 76 Raider will be the most efficient laptop of the Taiwanese manufacturer, equipped with NVIDIA GeForce RTX cards 3070 8 GB and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 16 GB. The notebook will also have Intel Comet Lake-H processors in the form of Intel Core i7 – 10870 H and Intel Core i9 – 10980 HK. In both cases, we are talking about 8-core and 16 – threaded systems 10 generation. All other models – GE 66 Raider, GS 76 Stealth, GS 66 Stealth, GP 76 Leopard, GP 66 Leonard, GF 75 Thin, GF 65 Thin, Stealth 15 M and Creator 15 – will also be equipped with Intel processors. The exception, however, will be MSI Stealth 15 M, which will be packed Intel Tiger Lake-H processors 35 (Intel Core i5 – 11300 H, Core i7 – 11370 H and Core i7 – 11375 H, all with 4 cores and 8 threads) and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX card 3060 Max-Q. I am not personally convinced of such a combination, but we will see in tests whether 4 cores and 8 threads will not inhibit the possibilities of such cards too much. The VideoCardz portal has reached unofficial prices – it seems that although the top laptops will not be more expensive than last year’s versions, notebooks from the Leopard and Thin lines will become extremely unattractive in terms of what they offer apart from processors and graphics cards.
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Rocket Lake-S CPUs may not be officially out yet but overclockers seem to have their hands on them already. This week, two videos appeared online, showing an extreme overclock attempt with one of Intel’s unreleased CPUs 11th Gen Core CPUs.
Given what we know about the Rocket Lake-S line-up, this processor should either be the Core i9-11900K or the Core i7-11700K. The motherboard model used to achieve the 6.9GHz clock speed wasn’t specified, but this post from VWorld suggests that it’s a Gigabyte Z590 motherboard. Besides the CPU, the memory was also overclocked to a whopping 6666MHz at 1.83V.
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— VWorld (@PttpcWorld) January 8, 2021
The second video shows a closeup of the CPU-Z running, reporting the CPU instruction sets and Lx cache. As per the video, the processor supports both AVX512F and SHA, two instruction sets that are not supported on the current Comet Lake-S processors, and 48KB of L1 cache per core (384Kb) and 512KB of L2 cache per core (4096KB).
Intel is expected to announce its 11th Gen Core processors at CES 2021, running from January 11th to 14th, and launch them at the end of Q1 2021.
KitGuru says: Are you impressed with this Rocket Lake-S core frequency? Are you thinking about buying an Intel 11th Gen Core CPU for your next build?
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