Additional benchmarks of the upcoming Intel Rocket Lake-S CPU, the Intel i7-11700K has been spotted on the Geekbench database. The benchmark was spotted by well known leaked TUM-APISAK and this is the second time the 11th gen i7 CPU has been spotted in the Geekbench benchmark database.
The leaked benchmark shows the new CPU has significant performance improvements in both single-core and multi-core from its predecessor, the i7-10700K. The i7-11700K will be an 8 core and 16 thread CPU which will compete directly against AMD’s Ryzen 7 lineup.
Intel has gained a lot of performance thanks to the new Cypress cove cores and according to the current information, it will have better single-threaded performance compared to AMD’s Zen 3 based Ryzen 5000 series CPUs. The Core i9-11900K will go against the Ryzen 9 5900X and the Core i7-11700K against the Ryzen 7 5800X.
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.
In the leaked Geekbench 4 benchmark, the i7-11700K scored 7857 points in single-core and 42011 points in multi-core benchmarks which is a 25% performance increase in single and 20% in multicore from the Intel Core i7-10700K, which scores around 6200 points in single-core and 35,000 points in multi-core tests.
It will be interesting to see how Rocket Lake CPUs overclock since the difference between the Core i9 and Core i7 chip is very small which can be overcome by a small overclock. As for pricing, the Core i7 will also be cheaper than the Core i9 variant but we don’t know yet how Intel will price its 8 core Rocket Lake-S Desktop CPUs yet. Make sure that you check out the first leaked benchmark as well.
