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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arashi - Wednesday, March 31, 2021 - link
Calm down Piednoel, Intel isn't going to hire you as CEO after Pat leaves either way.Qasar - Wednesday, March 31, 2021 - link
he's just a very angry person for some reason, let him be, maybe he will just get tired of whining, and go somewhere else.Oxford Guy - Thursday, April 1, 2021 - link
Ad hominem much?AlyxVariant - Wednesday, March 31, 2021 - link
From 10nm to 14nm...Why?.... Why Intel...
But What about iGPU tests?
The known YouTube Sdfx Show prove that at mid/low range game config the Iris iGPU can game at solid 60FPS
TheinsanegamerN - Wednesday, March 31, 2021 - link
This isnt an iris GPU and pales in comparison to AMD's vega."gaming at solid 60 FPS" I could load up shovel knight on an atom netbook at game at a "solid 60 FPS". Doesnt mean the netbook is any good. Intel's desktop GPUs suck. 32 EUs (24 for the i5 10400) VS the 96 EU+64MB cache of tiger lake.
JimmyZeng - Thursday, April 1, 2021 - link
Please compare 5800X to 11700KF instead of 11700K, you're anandtech, don't make such rookie mistakes.Bagheera - Thursday, April 1, 2021 - link
you know the KF chips still have the iGPU on-die, just disabled, right? one can simply disable the iGPU on the K and it would be the same??Hifihedgehog - Thursday, April 1, 2021 - link
Shhh... Piednoel will spend a whole evening again writing pages of nonsense here if you egg him on.Bagheera - Saturday, April 10, 2021 - link
the KF is lower price, so if someone wanted to save some money and don't need the iGPU they can go for that part. but for performance review K and KF are effectively identical. there's nothing wrong with comparing the K against the 5800X.JimmyZeng - Friday, April 2, 2021 - link
But why? Intel provides KF SKUs at a lower price tag, do not forget that.