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.
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Medium Resolution Max Quality |
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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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robbro9 - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link
Has anyone seen igpu tests? Toms did not test them either apparently. Given the challenges in locating add in gpu's the integrated should be of high interest for many. I know I just put together a 3400G system, just cause its about the best you can get graphics wise without paying scalper pricing. Was curious if these were as good or better?Lookslikeamhere - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link
Phoronix has someilt24 - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link
Hexus has some...https://hexus.net/tech/reviews/cpu/147440-intel-co...robbro9 - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link
Thanks, those are kinda disappointing. The 3400G I put together does roughly 13K night raid, 1.4K time spy, while the new UHD 750 does 9.5K and .7k respectively. I figured it would be closer. Guess its still king of the hill for desktop integrated... which is kinda sad. I wish AMD would up their integrated game, or Tigerlake was available for desktop...Slash3 - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link
Tiger Lake is 96EU, RKL-S is only 36 or 24EU. It was always going to be a small bump over Comet Lake.antonkochubey - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link
RKL is 32EU. Exactly a third of Tiger Lake.Slash3 - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link
Whoops, yes. Typo.32EU on the i5-11500 and above, 24EU on the i5-11400 parts.
Pmaciel - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link
"The Core i9-11900K in our test peaks up to 296 W, showing temperatures of 104ºC""The cooler we’re using on this test is arguably the best air cooling on the market – a 1.8 kilogram full copper ThermalRight Ultra Extreme, paired with a 170 CFM high static pressure fan from Silverstone."
Not even the much-derided AMD FX-9590 got this far
blppt - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link
To be fair, the 9590 was such a POS that it was a blast furnace AND wasn't really competitive in real life usage.At least this cpu is competitive, performance wise. Everything else is laughable---or would be if AMD wasn't having a nightmare keeping their 59xx series in stock.
TheinsanegamerN - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link
Credit where it’s due, bulldozer was easier to cool