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 XIV
Despite being one number less than Final Fantasy 15, because FF14 is a massively-multiplayer online title, there are always yearly update packages which give the opportunity for graphical updates too. In 2019, FFXIV launched its Shadowbringers expansion, and an official standalone benchmark was released at the same time for users to understand what level of performance they could expect. Much like the FF15 benchmark we’ve been using for a while, this test is a long 7-minute scene of simulated gameplay within the title. There are a number of interesting graphical features, and it certainly looks more like a 2019 title than a 2010 release, which is when FF14 first came out.
With this being a standalone benchmark, we do not have to worry about updates, and the idea for these sort of tests for end-users is to keep the code base consistent. For our testing suite, we are using the following settings:
- 768p Minimum, 1440p Minimum, 4K Minimum, 1080p Maximum
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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As the resolution increases, the 11900K seemed to get a better average frame rate, but with the quality increased, it falls back down again, coming behind the older Intel CPUs.
All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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Fulljack - Wednesday, March 31, 2021 - link
yeah, just bought an AMD Ryzen 7 4750G with much faster Vega 8 graphics than paltry Xe-LP 32 EU that is barely enough for 720p gaming.vanish1 - Wednesday, March 31, 2021 - link
Ryzen 4000 APUs are not available for purchase through retail, only OEMsrUmX - Wednesday, March 31, 2021 - link
You're fucking stupid.jospoortvliet - Thursday, April 1, 2021 - link
That are available in about a week. https://www.anandtech.com/show/9793/best-cpusvanish1 - Thursday, April 1, 2021 - link
Woof a Zen 2 based APU that costs currently $637 on Newegg, ouch.Also, youre missing the point. Instead of overspending and wasting money to game, put the cash towards other parts of the system then focus on gaming when GPU prices return to normal.
Prosthetic Head - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link
The past called, they want their processors back!But seriously, it is sad to see back ports on to older processes with (relatively) awful performance / Watt. Talking of which, can anyone point me to a recent power / performance analysis of current CPUs?
Prosthetic Head - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link
e.g. sum up the area under these traces from the handbreak test to see the total energy used to do the same job: https://images.anandtech.com/doci/16495/Power-HB.p...Bigos - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link
Thanks for Factorio test results. I am looking forward to the Bench DB being filled.Could you share more about the save you are using for the test? Is it a big factory (a "mega base") or something smaller? Is it mostly bot or belt focused? Are trains being used?
wr3zzz - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link
Handbrake seems to scale better with additional cores on Rocket Lake than on Zen3. Why is that?29a - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link
I had a Zen+ CPU and Handbrake had trouble utilizing all of the cores