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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Qasar - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link
nope zen 3, they are waiting for the ryzen 5000 series to be in stock, and once they do, they will upgrade, some were looking at 5600X or 5800X, but now, might move up a tier vs what they would of picked up if they were in stock from day one.Tomatotech - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link
Is there a problem with your keyboard? It doesn’t seem able to type the word ‘shit’ properly. Seems a common problem with American keyboards.Holliday75 - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link
I have an American keyboard.Shit.
Works for me.
ImSteevin - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link
AMD got used to fighting hard with reduced resources and Intel got used to being comfy at the top. Bought AMD at $13, always believed in the real MVP.SaturnusDK - Wednesday, March 31, 2021 - link
I bought AMD shares when they hit the $2 mark. I usually do that when any tech stock hits $2 and I have some spare cash, and then keep it for a minimum of a year. In 2016 it was AMD .Last year it was Kodak.JayNor - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link
"AMD is the top dog and intel cannot even catch up...."Intel is already sampling 16 core 24 thread Alder Lake chips ... pcie5, ddr5, new cores. They showed a desktop running it at CES. When will AMD catch up with these features?
SkyBill40 - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link
Intel couldn't get 10nm on desktop, yet we're supposed to believe that they're suddenly going to pull a magic rabbit out of a hat tomorrow? Hardly. By the time Intel gets around to having a worthwhile process on something other than 14nm, AMD will be on 5nm. They're almost there as is.16/24? Why bother with that when AMD has 16/32 NOW? While it may not have PCI-E5 or DDR5, it doesn't need it but will likely have it soon enough. AMD catch up? Come on, man. AMD is in FRONT and has been for a while now. It's all about Intel getting it together and trying to close the gap they themselves created due to complacency, mismanagement, and underestimating their opponent.
Qasar - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link
jaynor, i think that will be Zen 4, for the most part, its intel that has caught up to AMD with its features. and um if you haven't noticed even with a release bios, microcode etc, looks like rocket lake is still the dud AT shows it was turning out to be a couple of weeks ago.Hifihedgehog - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link
> Intel is already sampling 16 core 24 threadLOL. 16 cores and 32 threads of full fat Zen cores is ALWAYS better than 8 cores and 16 threads of full fat Core cores and 8 cores and 8 threads of garbage tier Atom cores.
flgt - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link
Yeah, that seems like a mobile first design which will be “good enough” for corporate desktops. Seems like Intel is giving up on the desktop enthusiast market.