The first specimens of the upcoming desktop processors (Rocket Lake-S) have surfaced in China. A thread in the Chinese forum Chiphell shows authentic pictures and several benchmarks with low clocked eight-cores. According to a creenshot, 695 points were achieved with the Intel Core i9-11900K in the CPU-Z single-threading benchmark.
The processor is thus just ahead of the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X, which achieves between 660 and 670 points. The higher clocking AMD Ryzen 9 5950X and Ryzen 5900X reach 680 points. It is therefore very likely that the new Intel processor will manage slightly higher frame rates than the AMD competition in games that primarily require a high single-threading performance. The currently available Intel Core i9-10900K is far behind here with under 600 points.
Cypress Cove cores increase the performance
The significantly higher performance of the Intel Core i9-11900K was achieved by the Cypress Cove cores, a 10 nm architecture that has been backported to 14 nm technology. At a clock rate of 5.2 GHz, 700 points could thus be achieved in the CPU-Z single-threading benchmark thanks to the mature 14 nm manufacturing.
AMD far ahead in multithreading
AMD is still clearly ahead in multithreading benchmarks. The Intel Core i9-11900K overclocked to 5.2 GHz achieves 7,200 points in the CPU-Z multithreading test and is thus only just faster than the Intel Core i9-10900K and the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X. Ryzen 9 models (12 and 16 cores) on the other hand remain unmatched.
