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19% gen-on-gen IPC vs. 10th General Desktop CPU. Sounds great – but the verdict is significant on the effect of a “up to” hedge, or a reduction in core computation in the i9 CPU.
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Intel shows some modest wins over the Raizen 95900X in some of its “RUG” workflow tests – but they lean heavily on the AVX-512 optimization, which won’t share many workloads.
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The new Intel Z590 board brings support for PCI Express 4.0, Thunderbolt 4 and improved DMI. The Z590 board also supports 10th General Core processors.
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This week, Intel announced its 11th pay generation S-Series Desktop CPU, named Rocket Lake-S. This clock is a gt optimized gaming-oriented processor for clock rate and performance, coming in 19 SQs from 19-51900 to i5-11400T.
The new chips, based on Intel’s Cyprus Cove architecture, claim a 19 percent increase in instructions per clock cycle – a very familiar one, as AMD claims for its Jan-on-Gen IPC uplift between Zen2 and Zen. 3 Architecture. We will do some benchmarking in the near future to determine how important a “to to” hedge is in matters of that claim.
In the meantime, we are cautiously optimistic about “IPC up to 19 per cent” and “IGPU up to 50 per cent” performance, Intel claims. As always, Intel shows a really large number for a new generation of processors, not much to do with the general purpose CPU performance – they are very directly connected to find AAVX-512 optimized workloads. But 19 percent are not affiliated with the AAVX-512, and they do not even come at the price of a clock speed or a rated TDP.
Intel is also introducing the new Z590 motherboard chipset. The board built on the Z590 will offer 20 PCI Express 4.0 LAN, USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 20 Gbps port, Thunderbolt 4 and an improved direct memory interface. The new boards will also support 10th general processors – but those older CPUs don’t have PCI 4.0 support, so don’t expect the new Z590 board to unlock it.
The Rocket Lake-S CPU is incompatible with the H410 or B460 board, and compatibility with the Z490 is uncertain at best. If you want a Rocket Lake-S CPU, we strongly recommend the new Z590 board to go with it.
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This table shows all ten Core i9 and Core i7 Rocket Lake-S CPUs. Note that the core I9 CPU in this pay generation is at eight below ten cores.
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The biggest change to the Core i5 CPU from the 10th Gene to the 11th is the onboard graphics, which get a significant bump from the UHD 630 to the UHD 730 or UHD 730.
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Some 10th Gen Core i3 and Pentium Gold CPU models also get a refresh this month – but it’s not yet the 11th, but the 10th General.
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In another familiar story for Intel, what the new pay generation leaves is the main calculation – albeit only at the Core i9 level. The I9-10900K was a 10-core, 125W TDP component with a maximum single-core boost of 5.3GHz; The i9-11900K matches TDP and frequency but goes up to eight cores. The Core i7 and Core i5 CPUs are 8C / 16T and 6C / 12T respectively.
Ars has product models of the i9-11900K and I5-11600K processors on hand, with the new Z590 chipset based motherboard. We will naturally give benchmark results later this month.
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