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: World of Tanks
Albeit different to most of the other commonly played MMO or massively multiplayer online games, World of Tanks is set in the mid-20th century and allows players to take control of a range of military based armored vehicles. World of Tanks (WoT) is developed and published by Wargaming who are based in Belarus, with the game’s soundtrack being primarily composed by Belarusian composer Sergey Khmelevsky. The game offers multiple entry points including a free-to-play element as well as allowing players to pay a fee to open up more features. One of the most interesting things about this tank based MMO is that it achieved esports status when it debuted at the World Cyber Games back in 2012.
World of Tanks enCore is a demo application for its new graphics engine penned by the Wargaming development team. Over time the new core engine has been implemented into the full game upgrading the games visuals with key elements such as improved water, flora, shadows, lighting as well as other objects such as buildings. The World of Tanks enCore demo app not only offers up insight into the impending game engine changes, but allows users to check system performance to see if the new engine runs optimally on their system. There is technically a Ray Tracing version of the enCore benchmark now available, however because it can’t be deployed standalone without the installer, we decided against using it. If that gets fixed, then we can look into it.
The benchmark tool comes with a number of presets:
- 768p Minimum, 1080p Standard, 1080p Max, 4K Max (not a preset)
The odd one out is the 4K Max preset, because the benchmark doesn’t automatically have a 4K option – to get this we edit the acceptable resolutions ini file, and then we can select 4K. The benchmark outputs its own results file, with frame times, making it very easy to parse the data needed for average and percentiles.
AnandTech | Low Resolution Low Quality |
Medium Resolution Low Quality |
High Resolution Low Quality |
Medium Resolution Max Quality |
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95th Percentile |
WoT is a fun test to see 700 FPS+ numbers with the best CPUs. However the differences between the CPUs end up being minor.
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