Intel Rocket Lake Core i7 and Core i9 leaks: We've got good news and bad news

Intel Rocket Lake Core i7 and Cadre i9 leaks: We've got adept news and bad news

Intel Rocket Lake Core i7 disappoint in early leaks

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Leaked specs for the Intel Core i7-11700K and Core i9-11900K — the desktop Rocket Lake CPUs first announced at CES — accept arrived, and it seems Intel has a mixed handbag of fries on its hands. The Cadre i7-11700K is already disappointing some while the Core i9-11900K may point a path to Intel having a puncher's run a risk against AMD.

First, the proficient news. The folks at Wccftech shared a huge set of data for the entire Rocket Lake Core i7 and i9 CPU family unit, which shows the Core i9-11900K equally the standout of the agglomeration. In particular, the single-core Thermal Velocity Boost speed of five.3GHz and the 8-cadre Turbo 4.8GHz speeds are worth getting excited over.

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These speeds, earned from Intel's 14nm process, "should put an incredible amount of competitive pressure on AMD'southward Zen three lineup," according to that report.

Unfortunately, non all of the news for Intel is practiced. Andreas Schilling from the German tech site Hardware Luxx put leaked Core i7-11700K Cinebench R20 scores in comparing confronting the current Ryzen processors.

Every bit you'll see beneath, the Core i7-11700K's 600 score on the single-threaded test comes up short of the Ryzen seven 5800X and Ryzen nine 5950X (622 and 633, respectively). Then, on the multi-threaded version, the Core i7-11700K netted a 5,749 score: lower than non but the 5800X and 5950X, but the tenth Gen Core i9-10900K score as well.

Take this with a grain of salt, but I wanted to put the numbers in perspective. Core i7-11700K against current Ryzen lineup and in retro perspective with Intel CPUs. pic.twitter.com/adueVdc2wuFebruary 28, 2021

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All that said, take these early scores and numbers every bit a preview, and not a verdict. Equally Wccftech's Usman Pirzada notes, "the final variant could potentially be improve than this — only not worse," as Intel could push these processors harder.

Simply Pirzada's post does note that "Based on leaked benchmarks, we expect the Core i7 family to perform just slightly worse than AMD'southward Zen 3 based offerings / achieve parity in some cases."

So, Intel may be catching upwardly to AMD, but not spring-frogging it.

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