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8 Core Rocket Lake CPU compared to MSI Z590-A PRO motherboard, 21% faster than i7-10700K
Intel announced its 11th Gen Rocket Lake desktop CPUs, which will be released in Q1 2021. Now Intel Rocket Lake CPU benchmarks have been leaked into the UserBenchmark database, where we see a nice single-core performance gain with the first engineering samples.
The bench shows an 11th Gen Intel Rocket Lake desktop CPU with 8 cores and 16 threads, the maximum number of cores and threads in the Rocket Lake lineup. The CPU clocks in at 3.4 GHz and a 4.2 GHz boost, which is lower than what Intel has hinted at. A surprising thing about this bench is that it ran on a Z590 motherboard. The board in question is the MSI Z590-A PRO-12VO (MS-7D10) with the LGA 1200 socket, which will support both 10th Gen Comet Lake CPUs and 11th Gen Rocket Lake CPUs before the transition to another socket is planned in Q3 2021, which is the LGA 1700. Other notable specs about the configuration include 32GB of DDR4-2667 memory.
Intel Core i9-11900K at 4.2 GHz Versus i7-10700K Versus i9-10900K:
- 1 core 148 152 179 21% faster 18% faster
- 2 cores 292 302 368 26% faster 22% faster
- 4 cores 567 599 682 20% faster 14% faster
- 8 cores 1045 1156 1115 7% faster 3.6% slower
Rocket Lake desktop CPU is up to 21% faster than its predecessor, the Core i7-10700K, which has the same number of cores and threads within single-core tests. Simultaneously, the Core i7-10700K has a speed advantage at 5.1GHz that is 21% faster than the 4.2 GHz of the new CPU. Given these numbers, a 5 GHz + Rocket Lake CPU will destroy the Core i7-10700K in single-threaded workloads. The CPU was also 18% faster than the Core i9-10900K, which has a 26% speed advantage at 5.3 GHz.
The Rocket Lake CPU architecture is a hybrid between the Sunny Cove and Willow Cove design but will feature the Xe Gen 12 GPU architecture. We also know that the Z590 motherboards will be announced later this year, so we'll be seeing more information on Rocket Lake CPUs in the coming months.
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#5849880 Posted on: 11/02/2020 04:31 PM
I don't believe anything anymore about so called Intel CPU performance of next gen CPUs... they need to actually deliver to be believed again. Too many lies, too many promises and years and years of small incremental gains while milking customers every new gen for 5% increases.
IF, that's a big IF, Intel actually pulls out their head out of their a** and really makes a good performance jump for the 1st time in years, only then will they matter again... otherwise they are an obsolete dinosaur. We have to thank AMD for that.
Just a few more days and you'll get them.
As I said, it will beat the crap out of new Zen 3 in gaming and anything requiring up to 8/16 which is 98% of scenarios today.
I don't believe anything anymore about so called Intel CPU performance of next gen CPUs... they need to actually deliver to be believed again. Too many lies, too many promises and years and years of small incremental gains while milking customers every new gen for 5% increases.
IF, that's a big IF, Intel actually pulls out their head out of their a** and really makes a good performance jump for the 1st time in years, only then will they matter again... otherwise they are an obsolete dinosaur. We have to thank AMD for that.
Nice! Give us the benchmark numbers in the games that 5600x is faster, so we can try to close the gap with overclocking 
Just a few more days and you'll get them.
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#5849883 Posted on: 11/02/2020 04:38 PM
I don't believe anything anymore about so called Intel CPU performance of next gen CPUs... they need to actually deliver to be believed again. Too many lies, too many promises and years and years of small incremental gains while milking customers every new gen for 5% increases.
IF, that's a big IF, Intel actually pulls out their head out of their a** and really makes a good performance jump for the 1st time in years, only then will they matter again... otherwise they are an obsolete dinosaur. We have to thank AMD for that.
Just a few more days and you'll get them.
10900k with very fast memory is performing pretty well in gaming. I will be surprised if 5000 series is beating it in most games.
10900k overclocked with fast memory is like 35ns memorylatency.
PS: I'm a performance fanboy, so IF 5800x/5900x/5950x is faster in most games when overclocked, I will use this for gaming.
I don't believe anything anymore about so called Intel CPU performance of next gen CPUs... they need to actually deliver to be believed again. Too many lies, too many promises and years and years of small incremental gains while milking customers every new gen for 5% increases.
IF, that's a big IF, Intel actually pulls out their head out of their a** and really makes a good performance jump for the 1st time in years, only then will they matter again... otherwise they are an obsolete dinosaur. We have to thank AMD for that.
Just a few more days and you'll get them.
10900k with very fast memory is performing pretty well in gaming. I will be surprised if 5000 series is beating it in most games.
10900k overclocked with fast memory is like 35ns memorylatency.
PS: I'm a performance fanboy, so IF 5800x/5900x/5950x is faster in most games when overclocked, I will use this for gaming.
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#5849886 Posted on: 11/02/2020 04:45 PM
10900k with very fast memory is performing pretty well in gaming. I will be surprised if 5000 series is beating it in most games.
10900k overclocked with fast memory is like 35ns memorylatency.
PS: I'm a performance fanboy, so IF 5800x/5900x/5950x is faster in most games when overclocked, I will use this for gaming.
You might find yourself surprised soon and interested into a 5800x/5900x/5950x OC (5GHz) + Radeon 6900XT OC + SAM for the best gaming performance... over any other product combination (Intel/nvidia).
10900k with very fast memory is performing pretty well in gaming. I will be surprised if 5000 series is beating it in most games.
10900k overclocked with fast memory is like 35ns memorylatency.
PS: I'm a performance fanboy, so IF 5800x/5900x/5950x is faster in most games when overclocked, I will use this for gaming.
You might find yourself surprised soon and interested into a 5800x/5900x/5950x OC (5GHz) + Radeon 6900XT OC + SAM for the best gaming performance... over any other product combination (Intel/nvidia).
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#5849887 Posted on: 11/02/2020 04:46 PM
Judging by what's on paper and rumours it's going to be faster than ryzen 5k in gaming, especially with OC.
Power consumption will be at 10700k level since it's still 14nm, but we kind of got used to higher temps and custom cooling.
It's nothing short of amazing to be honest, this 14nm vs a mature 7nm process from AMD, both running at same performance level.
Hopefully pricing will be right.
Judging by what's on paper and rumours it's going to be faster than ryzen 5k in gaming, especially with OC.
Power consumption will be at 10700k level since it's still 14nm, but we kind of got used to higher temps and custom cooling.
It's nothing short of amazing to be honest, this 14nm vs a mature 7nm process from AMD, both running at same performance level.
Hopefully pricing will be right.
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Nice! Give us the benchmark numbers in the games that 5600x is faster, so we can try to close the gap with overclocking