An 8-core, 16-thread Intel Rocket Lake-S processor has appeared on Geekbench before its rumored launch in 2021.
Although the 11th generation Intel CPU lineup is unlikely to arrive anytime soon, this is the second time we’ve seen an 8-core, 16-thread Rocket Lake-S CPU in Geekbench, adding even more weight to the rumors that the Alignment will peak at eight cores compared to 10 on Comet Lake.
The processor, which is expected to bring a Skylake architecture change for the first time in five years, has a 3.2GHz base clock and a 4.3GHz boost clock, suggesting that this is the same chip that appeared earlier. month.
RocketLake SIntel 00001 processor 8 cores, 16 threads GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 167 Stepping 0Base 3.19 GHz Maximum 4.28 GHz Intelligent (R) Gen12 Mobile graphics controller Computing units 32 Maximum 1.15 GHz Device memory 6.33 GB 2020
In addition, this latest leak details the iGPU built into the processor, which reportedly has 32 compute units, with a central clock rate of 1.15GHz and 6.33GB of VRAM. However, although the iGPU is expected to use the Intel Xe graphics architecture, the initial benchmarking scores do not look promising.
As Notebookcheck reported, Xe graphics scored just 6,266 in the OpenCL benchmark test, nearly 40 percent slower than the Vega 10 integrated graphics found in AMD’s 15W ultra-low-voltage Ryzen 7 3700U APU.
Furthermore, this is also slightly lower than the 6,360 points accumulated by the Intel UHD 630 graphics found in the Intel Core i7-10700K.
However, that is likely because the compared CPU is an early engineering sample; performance numbers are probably far from final.
And while Rocket Lake will continue to be based on 14nm, Intel’s upcoming Willow Cave architecture, which will also be used for Tiger Lake CPUs, is expected to yield decent IPC gains, with early rumors suggesting up to a 25% rise. .
Although not mentioned in this latest leak, Intel’s Rocket Lake-S processors are also expected to work with the chipmaker’s new Z490 motherboards as well, and will feature PCIe 4.0 support.
Intel is expected to launch its Rocket Lake-S processors in the first half of 2021.
