Intel’s upcoming flagship CPU of its 11th Gen Rocket Lake series has made its first appearance in the Passmark benchmark database and has taken the top spot in the single-threaded performance. The Intel Core i9-11900K scored the highest single-threaded performance of all desktop processors in the Passmark benchmark.
The Core i9-11900K is the flagship processor of the upcoming Intel 11th Gen Rocket Lake-S CPU series. It is based on the Cypress cove architecture which is the biggest CPU architectural upgrade in over 5 years. Ever since the 6th Generation Skylake CPUs, all Intel CPUs up till the 10th Generation Comet Lake CPUs used the same identical chip architecture based on the 14nm process node, with small refinements along the way.
The Intel Core i9-11900K will have 8 cores and 16 threads, 16 MB of L3 cache (2 MB per core), and 4 MB of L2 cache (512 KB per core). In terms of clocks, the CPU has a base frequency of 3.5 GHz but as for boost, the CPU will feature a maximum boost clock of 5.3 GHz (1-core) while the all-core boost frequency will be maintained at 4.8 GHz, powered by Intel Thermal Velocity Boost.
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The i9-11900K will have a 1st stage power limit of 125W which is standard for a flagship Intel SKU and the 2nd stage power limit or PL2 is rated at 250W. Coming to the Passmark benchmark score, the Intel flagship i9-11900K scored 3764 points in the single-thread and 28082 points in the multi-core tests.
The single thread score of the Intel CPU is 7% faster than the AMD flagship Ryzen 9 5950X. Compared to its predecessor, the Intel Core i9-10900K, the 11th Gen CPU offers a 19% performance uplift. This benchmark takes Intel to the top of the single-core performance ranking in the Passmark benchmark database.
The 11th Gen Intel Rocket Lake CPU series will be hitting the market in late March this year. We will have to wait and see how the public reacts to the newest Intel Offering.
