Intel 11th Gen ‘Rocket Lake’ Desktop CPUs Launched for Gamers, Enthusiasts

Intel’s 11th Gen desktop CPUs, recognized by their code title ‘Rocket Lake’, have simply been introduced. Aimed primarily at avid gamers and desktop fans, these CPUs are primarily based on a brand new ‘Cypress Cove’ core structure and plenty of of them function extra highly effective built-in Intel Xe graphics capabilities together with AI acceleration. Interestingly, ‘Rocket Lake’ marks a serious departure from the iterative 14nm CPU refreshes that Intel has been releasing for the previous 5 years because it struggles with 10nm manufacturing capability. The firm has tailored its 10nm ‘Sunny Cove‘ structure, on which the cellular ‘Ice Lake‘ CPUs had been constructed, and backported it to the long-running 14nm manufacturing course of to make sure that it could meet demand. 

Intel claims as much as 19 % higher efficiency when it comes to IPC (directions per clock) over the earlier era. ‘Rocket Lake’ additionally brings 20 PCIe 4.0 lanes and help for DDR4-3200 reminiscence, discrete Thunderbolt 4 and Wi-Fi 6E, up to date media decode {hardware}, and new overclocking instruments.   

There are 5 new Core i9 fashions together with the brand new flagship Core i9-11900K, 5 new Core i7 fashions, and 9 new Core i5 fashions. Along with these, Intel is rolling out new 500-series chipsets though the CPUs are technically backward suitable with current-gen 400-series chipset-based motherboards. The firm has additionally introduced new refreshed tenth Gen Core i3 and Pentium Gold desktop CPUs to spherical out the decrease finish of the market.

The top-end Core i9-11900K is aimed toward avid gamers and content material creators. It options eight cores with Hyper-Threading, which is definitely fewer than the ten cores and 20 threads of the previous-gen Core i9-10900K. Intel says total efficiency makes up for that, though sure closely multi-threaded edge instances may not carry out as nicely. This CPU includes a prime pace of 5.3GHz on one core (and 4.8GHz on all cores) because of Intel’s Thermal Velocity Boost function when a highly effective sufficient cooling resolution will be leveraged. It includes a 16MB cache and 125W TDP ranking. There’s additionally a Core i9-11900KF mannequin which doesn’t function built-in Intel Xe graphics, and a Core i9-11900 which has a 65W TDP and 5.2GHz peak pace. 

The extra mainstream Core i7-11700K additionally has eight cores and 16 threads however lacks Thermal Velocity Boost. Peak pace is as much as 5GHz and there is 16MB of cache reminiscence with a 125W TDP for this mannequin as nicely. The Core i5 fashions function six cores and 12 threads with 12MB of cache reminiscence, and as much as 125W rated TDPs for the unlocked SKUs. The Core i5-11600KF has a prime Turbo Boost pace of 4.9GHz.

Intel can be hoping to tackle AMD’s Ryzen 5000 sequence, which have confirmed to be wonderful at single-threaded and multi-threaded workloads. Retail pricing for India is but to be disclosed. 11th Gen CPUs ought to go on sale within the US on March 30, and are anticipated to be in retail in India at across the similar time.

All 11th Gen ‘Rocket Lake’ CPUs can be suitable with previous-gen 400-series chipsets besides the low-end B460 and H410, and all tenth Gen ‘Comet Lake’ CPUs will proceed to work with new 500-series motherboards. You’ll want a 500-series motherboard to harness PCIe 4.0, built-in USB 3.2 Gen 2×2, and sooner DMI interconnect with the most recent CPUs. Interestingly, Intel now permits reminiscence overclocking on even mid-range 500-series motherboards. 

Intel has beforehand disclosed particulars of its upcoming twelfth Gen ‘Alder Lake’ structure which is able to lastly transfer the corporate’s desktop choices to 10nm and introduce a heterogenous mixture of highly effective and power-efficient cores for the primary time. These CPUs are anticipated to launch in direction of the tip of 2021.