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: Deus Ex Mankind Divided
Deus Ex is a franchise with a wide level of popularity. Despite the Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (DEMD) version being released in 2016, it has often been heralded as a game that taxes the CPU. It uses the Dawn Engine to create a very complex first-person action game with science-fiction based weapons and interfaces. The game combines first-person, stealth, and role-playing elements, with the game set in Prague, dealing with themes of transhumanism, conspiracy theories, and a cyberpunk future. The game allows the player to select their own path (stealth, gun-toting maniac) and offers multiple solutions to its puzzles.
DEMD has an in-game benchmark, an on-rails look around an environment showcasing some of the game’s most stunning effects, such as lighting, texturing, and others. Even in 2020, it’s still an impressive graphical showcase when everything is jumped up to the max. For this title, we are testing the following resolutions:
- 600p Low, 1440p Low, 4K Low, 1080p Max
The benchmark runs for about 90 seconds. We do as many runs within 10 minutes per resolution/setting combination, and then take averages and percentiles.
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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
It’s clearly sarcasm. The Turing stuff, which was a poor value even before this latest mining fiasco is very expensive at its top end — putting it quite outside the budget of a lot of people — that is if they could even get their hands on one in the first place.Qasar - Wednesday, March 31, 2021 - link
maybe you should stop whining and just leave if AT makes you this unhappy, and angry, oxford guyOxford Guy - Thursday, April 1, 2021 - link
When this becomes your personal website then you can decide who is to be censored and who is not. Until then, keep your comments relevant.Qasar - Thursday, April 1, 2021 - link
right after you doOxford Guy - Saturday, April 3, 2021 - link
And look up the tu quoque fallacy.Qasar - Saturday, April 3, 2021 - link
whining and complaining is still the same, no matter how you look at it, again, if this site makes you that unhappy and angry, due to the way they test and review products, then why do you keep coming here ?zamroni - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link
it's should be called rocket lame.it runs hot like rocket too
SkyBill40 - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link
Tech Jesus said it best and most bluntly: A waste of silicon.SystemsBuilder - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link
Ian,your writing about how "hard" AVX-512 is to program was fine in the first article and maybe even in the second article you wrote, but you keep on repeating the exact same sentence (paragraph) on how hard AVX-512 is to program and keep on quoting Jim Keller: "there are only a couple dozen or so people who understand how to extract the best performance ...".
That was a while ago and I can assure you there are plenty of people who know how to do this now. It's assembly and any CS/CE major graduate worth their salt, with linear algebra (vector calculus also helps), advanced computer architecture and a serious parallel programming class would know how to do that with some work.
AVX-512 is not mysterious or strange, it's just vectors math + vectorization of normal scalar operations on configurable 512 bit vectors. Yes you do need to vectorize your algorithms from the ground up because you cannot rely on compilers to vectorize your old sequential scalar algorithms for you (they'll do some attempts, but will disappoint), and you do need to write some code in either assembly directly or using intrinsic, as well as understand pipeline and scheduling of the AVX-512 instructions and the dependencies (there are tools to help you with this too), BUT it's not harder than that. It's not magic. It’s just normal solid Computer Science work. Can you please change the narrative on AVX-512 hardness because I think it is just misleading today 2021, having been available in mainstream CPUs since Skylake-X was released. Thx.
Hifihedgehog - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link
Haha. No. Ian is absolutely right and big names in the industry (like Linus Torvalds) are mostly in agreement on this too: AVX-512 hides the the warts of the underlying performance discrepancies of their hardware when doing general everyday compute.