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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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