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: GTA 5
The highly anticipated iteration of the Grand Theft Auto franchise hit the shelves on April 14th 2015, with both AMD and NVIDIA to help optimize the title. At this point GTA V is super old, but still super useful as a benchmark – it is a complicated test with many features that modern titles today still struggle with. With rumors of a GTA 6 on the horizon, I hope Rockstar make that benchmark as easy to use as this one is.
GTA doesn’t provide graphical presets, but opens up the options to users and extends the boundaries by pushing even the hardest systems to the limit using Rockstar’s Advanced Game Engine under DirectX 11. Whether the user is flying high in the mountains with long draw distances or dealing with assorted trash in the city, when cranked up to maximum it creates stunning visuals but hard work for both the CPU and the GPU.
We are using the following settings:
- 720p Low, 1440p Low, 4K Low, 1080p Max
The in-game benchmark consists of five scenarios: four short panning shots with varying lighting and weather effects, and a fifth action sequence that lasts around 90 seconds. We use only the final part of the benchmark, which combines a flight scene in a jet followed by an inner city drive-by through several intersections followed by ramming a tanker that explodes, causing other cars to explode as well. This is a mix of distance rendering followed by a detailed near-rendering action sequence, and the title thankfully spits out frame time data. The benchmark can also be called from the command line, making it very easy to use.
There is one funny caveat with GTA. If the CPU is too slow, or has too few cores, the benchmark loads, but it doesn’t have enough time to put items in the correct position. As a result, for example when running our single core Sandy Bridge system, the jet ends up stuck at the middle of an intersection causing a traffic jam. Unfortunately this means the benchmark never ends, but still amusing.
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All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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inighthawki - Monday, March 8, 2021 - link
It's not about the cost of electricity. High power draw typically translates to a lot of heat. My PC is on the upper floor and heat accumulates in my room and it gets extremely hot while gaming in the summer, even with AC on.As you stick to the same process node and continue to crank up the frequency, it gets hotter and hotter and hotter. Skylake didn't run even close to the temps that these new CPUs run at.
And yes, even Zen3 produces a lot of heat when under load.
YB1064 - Saturday, March 6, 2021 - link
How did you conclude that there exist thermal hotspots? Is it an educated guess or did you actually measure a temperature profile? If it was a measurement, was it a thermal image of the socket area of the rear PCB, multiple thermal probes? BTW, your argument does sound logical.ThereSheGoes - Wednesday, March 10, 2021 - link
Aaannddd. these results are obviously flawed. https://www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php/artikel/hard...Nameboy - Saturday, March 20, 2021 - link
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blppt - Friday, March 5, 2021 - link
Wow, couldn't even match the 5800X. AMD really knocked it out of the park with the 5xxx series.FreckledTrout - Friday, March 5, 2021 - link
Fell short while using considerably more power.Azix - Friday, March 5, 2021 - link
I wouldn't call it knocking it out of the part if a 14nm chip is right behind them.DV8_MKD - Friday, March 5, 2021 - link
Yeah, "right behind them" with 20% more power, smhinighthawki - Friday, March 5, 2021 - link
TDP is not a measurement of power draw. The 11700k peak power usage is over 2x the 5800xlmcd - Friday, March 5, 2021 - link
Yea if it was only 20% behind in power draw, that'd be a win at this point.