Intel Rocket Lake (14nm) Review: Core i9-11900K, Core i7-11700K, and Core i5-11600K
by Dr. Ian Cutress on March 30, 2021 10:03 AM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
- Intel
- LGA1200
- 11th Gen
- Rocket Lake
- Z590
- B560
- Core i9-11900K
Gaming Tests: Borderlands 3
As a big Borderlands fan, having to sit and wait six months for the EPIC Store exclusive to expire before we saw it on Steam felt like a long time to wait. The fourth title of the franchise, if you exclude the TellTale style-games, BL3 expands the universe beyond Pandora and its orbit, with the set of heroes (plus those from previous games) now cruising the galaxy looking for vaults and the treasures within. Popular Characters like Tiny Tina, Claptrap, Lilith, Dr. Zed, Zer0, Tannis, and others all make appearances as the game continues its cel-shaded design but with the graphical fidelity turned up. Borderlands 1 gave me my first ever taste of proper in-game second order PhysX, and it’s a high standard that continues to this day.
BL3 works best with online access, so it is filed under our online games section. BL3 is also one of our biggest downloads, requiring 100+ GB. As BL3 supports resolution scaling, we are using the following settings:
- 360p Very Low, 1440p Very Low, 4K Very Low, 1080p Badass
BL3 has its own in-game benchmark, which recreates a set of on-rails scenes with a variety of activity going on in each, such as shootouts, explosions, and wildlife. The benchmark outputs its own results files, including frame times, which can be parsed for our averages/percentile data.
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All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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mitox0815 - Tuesday, April 13, 2021 - link
Hard to see that as a selling point...niche functionality doesn't really shine when paired with noticeable performance and VAST efficiency disadvantagesHifihedgehog - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link
Yawn... wake me up in 9 months when Alder Lake is out. Honestly, what a snoozefest.TristanSDX - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link
they should backport Golden Cove than Sunny Cove. Maybe with 12 gen (Golden Cove core) they release i9, i7 and i5 on 10 nm, while i3, Pentium and Celeron on 14 nmPaulHoule - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link
Intel is making a big branding mistake when they come out with "i9"; they should just admit the state they are in and make it "i1" or "i-2" instead.BushLin - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link
They won't fool the geeks but the majority of the market just sees confusing product names on a Dell dropdown option and will pick the bigger number if they can afford it. Sad but true.mitox0815 - Tuesday, April 13, 2021 - link
We proudly introduce the Intel Core iGotNothinBagheera - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link
we all knew RKL was gonna be a steaming pile when it was announced, but Intel fanboys kept believing in miracles.moving the goalpost 101:
- "Rocket Lake will trash Zen 3!" (fail)
- "Rocket Lake will be so much cheaper!" (epic fail)
- "Rocket Lake will have stock at least..." (yes because nobody is buying them lol)
schujj07 - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link
"The i7 benchmarks are invalid because they are early"Well they were quite indicative of what we are seeing from the 11900k.
arashi - Wednesday, March 31, 2021 - link
Rocket Lake will do 5.6!!!WaltC - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link
Intel has become a company run by old men, for old men, and by old men. Just interesting to see that the former CPU Emperor has no clothes...all that time...all that time ahead of AMD and Intel had nothing at all in the oven. Not one bloody thing! Absolutely amazing--points out with drama what's wrong when major hardware markets are dominated by monopolists like Intel.