Intel Comet Lake-S processors have only been out for a couple of months at this point, but the next generation of Rocket Lake is leaking and rumors are still piling up.
The last one is courtesy of well-known hardware leaker @_rogame, who reiterates the 5 GHz boost clocks we reported earlier, but the most important story is IPC performance. According to @_rogame, we will see a 10% increase in the IPC (instructions per clock) over Skylake, which when combined with the high clock speeds, may be enough to stop AMD.
Some Intel RocketLake info> Cypress cove core (confirming @mooreslawisdead info)> IPC over SKL is around 10% + -> 5GHz + end clocks> TDP is high July 25, 2020
However, while we have heard rumors that 11th generation Intel Rocket Lake processors will be out in the near future, it is important to note that AMD Zen 3 chips will be out this year, as Team Red has reiterated time and time again. The reduction from 12nm Zen + to 7nm Zen 2 brought an increase in IPC somewhere in the stadium of 15% in 2019. And, it would be foolish to expect that AMD has run out of IPC performance for Zen 3, as even With With the new 3000XT chips, AMD is still behind in the single core battle.
If Intel wants to maintain its dominance over the title of “best game processor” that it loves to parade every time the company launches a new line of desktop computers, then this rumored CPI increase is necessary. We somehow doubt AMD Ryzen 4000 processors boost up to 5 GHz, but if AMD has a stronger IPC, then Red Team could do more with less clock speed, which would be a nightmare for Intel.
Only time will tell in any way. According to that tweet from @_rogame, the next generation line of desktops will build on a new Cypress Cove architecture, still based on the 14nm manufacturing node. Basically this should be the case if these IPC improvements will ever be true. Either way, if Intel is gearing up to follow Comet Lake-S with Rocket Lake so soon, the CPU battlefield will heat up immensely in the near future.
