Intel Core i7-11700K Review: Blasting Off with Rocket Lake
by Dr. Ian Cutress on March 5, 2021 4:30 PM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
- Intel
- 14nm
- Xe-LP
- Rocket Lake
- Cypress Cove
- i7-11700K
Gaming Tests: F1 2019
The F1 racing games from Codemasters have been popular benchmarks in the tech community, mostly for ease-of-use and that they seem to take advantage of any area of a machine that might be better than another. The 2019 edition of the game features all 21 circuits on the calendar for that year, and includes a range of retro models and DLC focusing on the careers of Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna. Built on the EGO Engine 3.0, the game has been criticized similarly to most annual sports games, by not offering enough season-to-season graphical fidelity updates to make investing in the latest title worth it, however the 2019 edition revamps up the Career mode, with features such as in-season driver swaps coming into the mix. The quality of the graphics this time around is also superb, even at 4K low or 1080p Ultra.
For our test, we put Alex Albon in the Red Bull in position #20, for a dry two-lap race around Austin. We test at the following settings:
- 768p Ultra Low, 1440p Ultra Low, 4K Ultra Low, 1080p Ultra
In terms of automation, F1 2019 has an in-game benchmark that can be called from the command line, and the output file has frame times. We repeat each resolution setting for a minimum of 10 minutes, taking the averages and percentiles.
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The Ego engine is usually a good bet where cores, IPC, and frequency matters. Despite this, the 11700K isn't showing much of a generational improvement.
All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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Makaveli - Friday, March 5, 2021 - link
lol the only one looking like a fanboy is you.DigitalFreak - Friday, March 5, 2021 - link
Why so butthurt? You wouldn't be on here whining if the benchmarks were in Intel's favor. Never understood the fanboi mentality.arashi - Friday, March 5, 2021 - link
Because now his website won't get the views he thought they'd get.Spunjji - Saturday, March 6, 2021 - link
Nice projection there.MarcusMo - Sunday, March 7, 2021 - link
”Using a processor that isn't suppose to be sold is sketchy”The operative word you’re missing is “yet”. The batch of processors this one is from is Intel release silicon intended for end customer hands. And there are more out there. This article represents exactly the kind of performance that at least some day one customers should expect. Now maybe there will be updates to the software stack that will improve performance over time, but that doesn’t make this review any less valid.
Slash3 - Friday, March 5, 2021 - link
Appreciate the statement, Ryan.Pre-release content is nothing new for AnandTech, and it's interesting to see how passionately some people feel about the topic. Might be something worth exploring in a future article, as I'd wager that there are a lot of readers who weren't around to see things like the original Sandy Bridge pre-review which Ian referenced in another reply.
CiccioB - Friday, March 5, 2021 - link
I think the criticism on this review is quite justified.You are reviewing a device that is not ready to be sold yet.
Yes, you could buy it at retail but just because, like you, some other "smart guy" made the wrong (would say fraudolent) move to not respect a date.
What we have here is a "preview" of the CPU performances that may (or not, but you don't know now) change when the CPU will really available for the rest of the mortals on the globe.
I would like to think that you will do a new review of the CPU once the motherboards will be updated and make evidence if, how and by how much something has changed since this preview with what are early samples that results being compatible with the device.
However, while you were at it, you could also try PCI4 connected memory storage to see how good Intel implementation of the technology is.
MFinn3333 - Friday, March 5, 2021 - link
"You are reviewing a device that is not ready to be sold yet." How is it Ian or Ryan's fault that Intel released a CPU in this condition? If Intel isn't doing any QA on their end for proper use out of the box then the problem is on their end.And yes, they did release it in that condition because unless they intend to recall all the packages and open them up and replace the CPU inside, it is the product that people are going to be getting and using when they open it up and slapping it in their computer. I used to work retail and getting new product on major releases is usually about 3-4 weeks ahead.
Following your logic then they shouldn't do a review unless they are willing to also update all of the AMD CPU's as well to include their performance and bug fixes which would turn bench-marking into a never ending nightmare because of updates.
Intel whiffed this release, get over it.
CiccioB - Saturday, March 6, 2021 - link
You have misses that Intel has not released the product yet and the samples you can find on the market come from a seller that broke the NDA and start selling them before the official release time.They are actually are in beta support with BIOS, microcode, drivers and such on not final motherboards as well.
Once you understand that you'll understand why this is a preview or a beta test, not a full review of the product.
Qasar - Saturday, March 6, 2021 - link
um THE HAVE RELEASED THEM. the store just started selling them early, that is the stores fault. you are grasping at straws.