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: Strange Brigade
Strange Brigade is based in 1903’s Egypt, and follows a story which is very similar to that of the Mummy film franchise. This particular third-person shooter is developed by Rebellion Developments which is more widely known for games such as the Sniper Elite and Alien vs Predator series. The game follows the hunt for Seteki the Witch Queen, who has arose once again and the only ‘troop’ who can ultimately stop her. Gameplay is cooperative centric with a wide variety of different levels and many puzzles which need solving by the British colonial Secret Service agents sent to put an end to her reign of barbaric and brutality.
The game supports both the DirectX 12 and Vulkan APIs and houses its own built-in benchmark as an on-rails experience through the game. For quality, the game offers various options up for customization including textures, anti-aliasing, reflections, draw distance and even allows users to enable or disable motion blur, ambient occlusion and tessellation among others. Strange Brigade supports Vulkan and DX12, and so we test on both.
- 720p Low, 1440p Low, 4K Low, 1080p Ultra
The automation for Strange Brigade is one of the easiest in our suite – the settings and quality can be changed by pre-prepared .ini files, and the benchmark is called via the command line. The output includes all 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