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: Red Dead Redemption 2
It’s great to have another Rockstar benchmark in the mix, and the launch of Red Dead Redemption 2 (RDR2) on the PC gives us a chance to do that. Building on the success of the original RDR, the second incarnation came to Steam in December 2019 having been released on consoles first. The PC version takes the open-world cowboy genre into the start of the modern age, with a wide array of impressive graphics and features that are eerily close to reality.
For RDR2, Rockstar kept the same benchmark philosophy as with Grand Theft Auto V, with the benchmark consisting of several cut scenes with different weather and lighting effects, with a final scene focusing on an on-rails environment, only this time with mugging a shop leading to a shootout on horseback before riding over a bridge into the great unknown. Luckily most of the command line options from GTA V are present here, and the game also supports resolution scaling. We have the following tests:
- 384p Minimum, 1440p Minimum, 8K Minimum, 1080p Max
For that 8K setting, I originally thought I had the settings file at 4K and 1.0x scaling, but it was actually set at 2.0x giving that 8K. For the sake of it, I decided to keep the 8K settings.
For our results, we run through each resolution and setting configuration for a minimum of 10 minutes, before averaging and parsing the frame time data.
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High Resolution Low Quality |
Medium Resolution Max Quality |
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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.