Intel 11th Gen Rocket Lake-S Desktop Processors have 14% More IPC and bring PCIe 4.
A Spanish website posted information online regarding Rocket Lake-S, the upcoming 11th Gen Core series. Intel has allegedly officially announced its 11th Gen Core Rocket Lake-S series during a CES 2021 press briefing.
The new line of processors promises an increase in the IPC or instructions per cycle of 14% compared to the last generation, thanks to using the new Intel Rocket Lake-S architecture with Cypress Cove cores. According to Intel itself, in games, these processors will outperform AMD. Specifically, they have shown the Metro Exodus with an Nvidia RTX 3080 together with an Intel i7 with 8 cores of this new generation against an AMD Ryzen 12 core processor with the same configuration of RAM and GPU.
PCI Express 4.0 will definitely appear on the Intel platform, with 20 PCIe 4.0 lanes from the CPU. Recall that these processors will use the LGA 1200 socket under a new Intel 500 series chipset line. The company has emphasized its capabilities for games, with specific optimizations for these types of applications. 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 in this new range. The arrival of previously leaked models such as the Intel Core i9-11900K, with 8 cores and 16 threads, is expected. Except for surprise, they will be manufactured at 14 nanometers and will have Intel Xe graphics cores.
The slides below are courtesy of geeknetic.
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They can't make a 10/20 because power will get out of control and out of specs.
Also I bet they wont release 10nm this year.
Intel needs to bring a 10nm preview to the lga 1200 with low stock or production like the 5000 series. Other way it will be too late and nobody will care about lga 1700.
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Not bad, expected something like that.
Great if you play in 1080p
Thanks, Jura
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I think it's fine for what it is, 14nm.
Consumption might be higher but in gaming where you barely reach tdp 10W +/- who really cares.
They needed a competitor for ryzen and if price is right could be a better option.
Cores wise, 8/16 is still not topped these days, AMD went overkill with more cores for desktop.
Not to mention, encoding and 3D render uses the video card with much better results so whats the point having so many cpu cores.
To me it looks like cpu is starting to matter even less for almost everything desktop use.
I don't even want to look at the future 4k gaming where cpu is probably the worst investment.
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Not bad, expected something like that.
Like I said. This is a good thing. However, that said, they'll still have to sell at a good price and be in adequate stock in order to do much.
I have a single inquiry about this though... since RL is a 10nm+ design that's been backported to 14nm, what's power draw gonna be like? o.O