Detailed specifications for the upcoming 11th gen Intel Rocket Lake Desktop CPUs have been posted online. The detailed technical specifications for Intel’s upcoming Intel Core i9 and Core i7 Rocket Lake family were posted by Wccftech.
The Rocket Lake desktop CPUs are based on the Cypress cove architecture which is the biggest CPU architectural upgrade from Intel 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.
In the above image, we can see the different i7 and i9 Rocket Lake SKUs with their specifications which were tested with B-0 Qualification samples. Intel is preparing a total of 10 SKUs in the Core i7 and Core i9 families for launch. TDPs range from 25W to 125W.
The Core i9-11900K is the flagship processor of the upcoming Intel 11th Gen Rocket Lake-S CPU series. 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.
The company’s flagship Rocket Lake CPU, the Core i9 11900K will be able to boost to an astounding 5.3GHz single-core and 4.8GHz all-core thanks to Intel’s incredibly mature 14nm process. Rocket Lake will finally bring PCIe Gen 4.0 support for Intel.
There are also Core i9 11900KF, Core i9 11900T, Core i9 11900, and Core i9 11900F in the i9 family. Coming to the i7 range of Rocket Lake processors, the i7-11700K and i7-11700KF will have all core boost around 4.6 GHz while the single-core boost will be 5.0 GHz. These are lower binned variants that will be much cheaper than the Core i9 parts.
We will have to wait and see how the Rocket Lake CPUs perform against AMD’s Ryzen 5000 series CPUs.
