Intel is all set to announce their upcoming Rocket Lake-S processors this month, and even before its launch, its reviews have been posted that show more negatives than positives. In the meantime, their upcoming 8-core flagship CPU will indeed regain Intel’s gaming crown snatched by AMD a few months back but fail to beat them in multi-core as usual.
As we know, Intel’s 14nm is being pushed to its max limit with the Rocket Lake-S CPUs and it will be the final time we see them using their age-old 14nm node. But, however, Intel is not as efficient anymore as it used to be before and as per early leaks and reviews, the 11th Gen desktop processors are also not up to the market against AMD’s efficient Ryzen processors.
On the other hand, @TUM_APISAK has again managed to spot the upcoming Intel Core i9-11900K in the CPU-Z benchmark and the scores prove Intel is in real trouble.
The closest 8-core competitor from AMD to the Intel Core i9-11900K has to be the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X, but the difference in scores shows how well AMD is against Intel drawing lesser power. The Core i9-11900K managed to score 716 points in the single-thread CPU-Z benchmark, while in multi-threaded applications, it scored only 6539 points even though it is clocked at higher speeds than AMD’s Ryzen 5000 series.
Yes, being clocked at high single-core speeds does help in gaming, but it’s the only segment Intel can boast; as in multi-thread, the Ryzen 7 5800X we tested easily beats the Core i9-11900K. As we see, the AMD 8-core CPU scores 661 points in the single-thread CPU-Z benchmark while 6578 points in multi-threaded applications.
A difference by only 55 points in the single-thread score is not a huge difference because it will consume more power than the Ryzen 7 5800X. Whereas the 5800X easily beats Core i9-11900K in multi-threading, even coming in at lower clock speed, so it’s safe to say Intel is far behind what AMD has achieved in a single generational uplift.
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