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: Final Fantasy XV
Upon arriving to PC, Final Fantasy XV: Windows Edition was given a graphical overhaul as it was ported over from console. As a fantasy RPG with a long history, the fruits of Square-Enix’s successful partnership with NVIDIA are on display. The game uses the internal Luminous Engine, and as with other Final Fantasy games, pushes the imagination of what we can do with the hardware underneath us. To that end, FFXV was one of the first games to promote the use of ‘video game landscape photography’, due in part to the extensive detail even at long range but also with the integration of NVIDIA’s Ansel software, that allowed for super-resolution imagery and post-processing effects to be applied.
In preparation for the launch of the game, Square Enix opted to release a standalone benchmark. Using the Final Fantasy XV standalone benchmark gives us a lengthy standardized sequence to record, although it should be noted that its heavy use of NVIDIA technology means that the Maximum setting has problems - it renders items off screen. To get around this, we use the standard preset which does not have these issues. We use the following settings:
- 720p Standard, 1080p Standard, 4K Standard, 8K Standard
For automation, the title accepts command line inputs for both resolution and settings, and then auto-quits when finished. As with the other benchmarks, we do as many runs until 10 minutes per resolution/setting combination has passed, and then take averages. Realistically, because of the length of this test, this equates to two runs per setting.
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All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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Oxford Guy - Saturday, April 3, 2021 - link
Since you are interested in playing Mr. Censor I can give you some advice. Instead of campaigning to have this site degraded to be like Ars and Slashdot — echo chambers of post hiding and clique voting, there are more than enough sites like that where you can find that kind of entertainment.I doubt that this site is going to change the comments system into one of those echo chambers for you. But, I can’t stop you from continuing your peevish inept censorship campaign.
Qasar - Saturday, April 3, 2021 - link
nor will it ever change no matter how you whine and complain about everything, just to give you some thing to whine and complain about, whats your point :-)marsdeat - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link
Slight error on page 1: "it really has to go against the 12-core Ryzen 9 5900X, where it loses out by 50% on cores but has a chance to at least draw level on single thread performance."No, it loses out by 33% on cores, or the 5900X has 50% more cores. The 11900K doesn't lose by 50% on cores.
factual - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link
At this point in time, the best bang for buck CPU is 10700K (At least in Canada). There's no point in wasting money on 11th gen Intel CPUs, you are better off paying the premium for the Ryzen 5000 instead of buying 11th gen Intel.Fulljack - Wednesday, March 31, 2021 - link
or 10700F if you already have GPU. it's much cheaper even against older 3700X in my country.JayNor - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link
While ABT may be hard for Intel to explain, the description chart in this article indicates that a good cooler + enabled ABT might provide an interesting benchmark result, especially if this is effectively what AMD enables in their default configuration.Byte - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link
Rocket lake is akin to Nvidias Turing, hard pass generation of chips. Unless you really really can't wait a year. But then again, maybe you can buy it.jeremyshaw - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link
Turing was at least consistently faster than their predecessors in the consumer space (and could still claim #1 gaming against its contemporaries). Just being #1, in and of itself, is reason enough to exist. Turing also didn't move the needle in price/perf, but it didn't regress, either. Rocket Lake does not have any real performance angle to hold onto, outside of the narrow AVX512 market (is it even a market?), and its price/perf is worse in many aspects (and that's just MSRP to MSRP, nevermind street prices).AdamK47 - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link
2080 Ti?What going on over there at AnandTech?
Slash3 - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link
That 2080 Ti is almost brand new to AT, too. Game tests until recently had been done with a GTX 1080. It's not really their wheelhouse at this point and I think they're more than aware. It's ok, the gap has long since been filled.