Benchmarks for the upcoming 11th Gen flagship CPU Intel i9-11900K have leaked out online which shows that the newest flagship has a performance gain of double digits over last generation’s flagship, the Intel Core i9-10900K. The performance numbers were leaked by Twitter user HXL.
The performance numbers were leaked from Intel’s official slides. The performance slides show the Intel Core i9-11900K 8 Core Rocket Lake flagship CPU pitted against the Intel Core i9-10900K 10 Core Comet Lake flagship CPU. In the official slides, both the flagship processor performance has been tested in 4 different triple-A game titles.
The games include Total War: Three Kingdoms, Gears 5, Grid 2019, and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. All games were tested at 1080p with the high settings preset. Intel’s own benchmarks show that the Core i9-11900K Rocket Lake CPU is up to 14% faster than Core i9-10900K. The average performance gain over the previous generation is around 11%.
Image Credit: HXL.
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.
The Intel Rocket Lake Desktop CPUs will launch on 30th March, with pre-orders opening from 16th Match.
