Intel Core i9-11900K ‘Rocket Lake’ Flagship 8-Core CPU Benchmarks Revealed at CES 2021

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Intel has shared some official benchmarks for the upcoming  11th Generation Rocket Lake S flagship CPU, the i9-11900K at CES 2021. And in the benchmarks, Intel’s ‘Rocket Lake S’ Core i9-11900k beats out AMD’s 5900X which has 50% more cores than the 8-core flagship Rocket Lake S CPU.

Rocket Lake will be Intel’s first PCIe 4.0 mainstream platform and will represent a major step up from the countless iterations of Skylake. Intel showed off several game benchmarks in its CES 2021 conference and the performance difference ranges from 2% to 8% depending upon the game title.

The gaming benchmarks which Intel revealed in their conference include Total War: Three Kingdoms, Gears of War 5, Metro Exodus, Cyberpunk 2077, Watchdogs: Legion, FarCry: New Dawn, and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. All games were tested on the 1080p graphics settings.

Intel i9-11900K Benchmarks

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The Intel Rocket Lake-S lineup will feature the new Cypress cove cores and Intel Core i9-11900K will be the flagship 11th Gen Rocket Lake Desktop CPU. It will be an 8 core and 16 thread CPU having 16 MB of L3 cache and 4 MB of L2 cache. The i9-11900K has the same single-core boost clock of 5.3 GHz and the all-core boost will still be 4.8 GHz according to the leaked specifications.

The chip will also feature Thermal Velocity Boost which should deliver a 100 MHz jump in the max clock frequency. This should lead to a single-core boost clock of 5.3 GHz making it the first CPU to ever hit such a high frequency out of the box.

Intel also showed a performance gain compared to the previous generation flagship i9-10900K. The former flagship scores 129 frames per second in Hitman 3, whereas the Core i9-11900k scores up to 140 fps in the same benchmark.

Intel also showed off a demo of the i9-11900K running Cyberpunk 2077 paired with an RTX 3080. According to the known information, Intel plans to launch the 11th Generation Rocket Lake-S CPUs in March of 2021.

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2 Comments

    1. These numbers were released by Intel themselves. We will have to wait for the official launch to see what frames the games are really running at.

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