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: Red Dead Redemption 2
It’s great to have another Rockstar benchmark in the mix, and the launch of Red Dead Redemption 2 (RDR2) on the PC gives us a chance to do that. Building on the success of the original RDR, the second incarnation came to Steam in December 2019 having been released on consoles first. The PC version takes the open-world cowboy genre into the start of the modern age, with a wide array of impressive graphics and features that are eerily close to reality.
For RDR2, Rockstar kept the same benchmark philosophy as with Grand Theft Auto V, with the benchmark consisting of several cut scenes with different weather and lighting effects, with a final scene focusing on an on-rails environment, only this time with mugging a shop leading to a shootout on horseback before riding over a bridge into the great unknown. Luckily most of the command line options from GTA V are present here, and the game also supports resolution scaling. We have the following tests:
- 384p Minimum, 1440p Minimum, 8K Minimum, 1080p Max
For that 8K setting, I originally thought I had the settings file at 4K and 1.0x scaling, but it was actually set at 2.0x giving that 8K. For the sake of it, I decided to keep the 8K settings.
For our results, we run through each resolution and setting configuration for a minimum of 10 minutes, before averaging and parsing the frame time data.
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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