Specifications of the next desktop CPUs lineup by Intel have leaked out which is codenamed Rocket Lake-S and it will be the 11th generation of Intel’s desktop CPUs. Specifications of 4 CPUs have leaked out online and the information about them was posted by Davidbepo on Twitter.
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.
The i9-11900K will feature lesser cores than i9-10900K because of the backporting of Cypress Cove on the refined 14nm process node. The leaked details show the CPU having a TDP of 250W which means when the CPU is hitting the advertised clocks, it will be pulling large amounts of power and will become the most power-hungry 8-core chip ever.
The second chip whose specifications have been leaked is the Intel Core i7 11700K. It is also an 8 core and 16 thread CPU which has a boost clock of 5.0 GHz on a single core and 4.6 GHz on all cores. It has the same cache as the i9 11900K and this CPU will have a TDP of 225-250W.
The other two processors that have been leaked are the i5 11600K and the i5 11400. Both i5 CPUs are 6 core and 12 thread CPUs. The Core i5-11600K is said to feature a clock speed of 4.9 GHz on a single and 4.7 GHz across all cores. It will have a 12 MB L3 cache and 3 MB L2 cache.
The Core i5-11400 is said to feature a clock speed of 4.4 GHz on a single and 4.2 GHz across all cores. It is a locked chip but motherboard vendors will be incorporating BIOS and features to raise the power limits of non-K SKUs for Rocket Lake chips which will result in significant performance boosts.
The Rocket Lake-S will use the LGA 1200 socket which debuted in the 10th generation Comet Lake. The main features of Intel’s Rocket Lake-S are:
- Increased Performance with new Cypress Cove core architecture
- Up to 8 cores and 16 threads (Double Digit IPC Gains Over Skylake)
- New Xe graphics architecture (Up To 50% higher Performance Than Gen9)
- Increased DDR4 3200 MHz Memory Support
- CPU PCIe 4.0 Lanes (Available on Z490 & Z590 Motherboards)
- Enhanced Display (Integrated HDMI 2.0b, DP1.4a, HBR3)
- Added x4 CPU PCIe Lanes = 20 Total CPU PCIe 4.0 Lanes
- Enhanced Media (12 bit AV1/HVEC, E2E compression)
- CPU Attached Storage or Intel Optane Memory
- New Overclocking Features and Capabilities
- USB Audio offload
- Integrated CNVi & Wireless-AX
- Integrated USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 (20G)
- 5Gb Ethernet Discrete LAN
- Discrete Intel Thunderbolt 4 (USB4 Compliant)
Rocket Lake-S is planned to be announced in the first quarter of 2021.
