Another media outlet has posted its review of the currently unreleased and upcoming Intel 11th Gen Core i7-11700K processor. The CPU was accidentally put on sale by a German retailer called Mindfactory, who sold their whole stock of the i7-11700K processors even before the announcement of the processor.
The review was posted by HardwareLuxx and as they bought the CPU on the free market, they have the right to publish their review while technically still being under NDA. The media outlet can publish whatever they discover and learn during testing, but at the same time, they cannot share any details that were provided by Intel under the embargo.
Image Credit: HardwareLuxx
The i7-11700K will be an 8 core and 16 thread CPU which will compete directly against AMD’s Ryzen 7 lineup. The Intel Core i7-11700K is an 8 core and 16 thread CPU having a base clock of 3.6 GHz and a single-core boost clock of 5.0 GHz which goes down to 4.6 GHz on all cores. This lower-binned chip will sit at around 225-250W (PL2) limit while the PL1 limit will be standard at 125W.
HardwareLuxx’s retail sample of the i7-11700K had a TDP of 125W (PL1) and Power Limit 2 (PL2) set to 229W. The testing bench featured an ASUS ROG Maximus XIII Hero motherboard with BIOS version 0402. DDR4-3600 memory with the timings 18-19-19-39 were used in all benchmarks.
HardwareLuxx’s review focused on synthetic, rendering, and gaming tests. In the benchmarks, the i7-11700K is able to compete with 10th Gen Core high-end models. It trades places with Core i9-10850K which is one of the most interesting CPUs of the current generation. In 3 out of 4 tests Ryzen 5000 CPUs are still offering the best gaming performance though. All tests were performed at 1080p resolution.
HardwareLuxx summed up its review like this.
In Battlefield V, the Intel processors usually look quite good and this also applies to the Core i7-11700K. In Division 2, Metro: Exodus and Shadow of the Tomb Raider, the Ryzen processors still have the upper edge. […]
The power consumption does not explode in the way it was feared – at least not with the Core i7-11700K. We’ll have to look at what this will look like with the Core i9-11900K. At the same time, the GPU temperatures, be it those of the package sensor or those of the individual cores, remain within the scope of what is a solvable task for a good cooler.
— Andreas Schilling, HardwareLuxx
We will have to wait and see how the processor performs once the bios is released for it after official release.
