Quote:Today, Intel finally took the wraps off all the details about its upcoming 11th-gen Rocket Lake processors. While the announcement wasn’t a surprise—so much information is out there in the wild already, and some consumers and reviewers have even gotten their hands on a chip or two well before the official launch date—there’s still some fresh information. I would actually argue we now know the most important information: clock speeds, SKUs, prices, performance, and other extra features that Intel didn’t include in its previous generation of desktop processors.

Let’s start with what probably will always be the elephant in the room: Yes, Intel’s 11th-gen processors are on a 14nm mode. But even without moving to a new transistor node, Intel says it was still able to increase gen-to-gen performance with a few key architectural changes. The Rocket Lake CPUs are based on Intel’s Cypress Cove architecture, which consists of Ice Lake’s 10nm node ported back to 14nm, combined with Tiger Lake graphics. Basically, Intel’s 11th-gen desktop CPUs have some features of its 11th-gen mobile processors, which makes it the first time the company has re-done its desktop architecture in about five years.

Porting the 10nm node back to a 14nm node also meant the chipmaker could only fit a total of 8 cores and 16 threads onto its 11th-gen CPUs, but the new architecture means an increase in how many instructions are completely executed in a clock cycle. Intel said it was able to increase instructions per cycle by 19%, but using the new architecture also means a 50% boost in integrated graphics performance.

When it comes to gaming, that translates to about an 8-14% frames per second boost when comparing the new Core i9-11900K to the Core i9-10900K, and a 7-16% fps gain from the Core i5-10600K to the Core i5-11600K. Intel said its flagship i9-11900K has about a 3-11% lead over AMD’s Ryzen 5900X in some games.

(03-17-2021, 03:07 AM)mothered Wrote: Technology Is moving at a rapid rate.

I remember using the good old Pentium 100 and back then, I never thought CPUs would advance to this level.

(03-17-2021, 03:27 AM)Oni Wrote: I'd imagine. And the 8MB flash drives.