[Hardware] What does the next generation of Intel CPUs based on Rocket Lake-S look like?

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The war between Intel and AMD is going to get interesting in early 2021 with the launch of the eleventh generation of Intel Core with which Intel intends to face the Ryzen 5000 in the interest of the most enthusiastic and seeking PC users. maximum performance. But what does Intel's next generation of Rocket Lake-S-based CPUs look like?

A few hours after Intel has revealed information about the processors, which will be launched on the market during the first quarter of 2021, the results of the first performance tests have been leaked, which allow us to get a rough idea of the new family of CPUs .

Rocket Lake-S, the next generation of Intel Core
Intel Rocket Lake Rocket

The CPU with which they have done the tests could be a Core i9-11900K or a Core i9-11700K, so we are talking about one of the top-of-the-range CPUs of the eleventh generation of Intel Core processors, which will use Cypress Cove cores in its architecture.

Intel has used cores based on the Skylake architecture in the last 5 generations of their Intel Core, but with the eleventh they have decided to jump to a new core, which gives it a significant improvement in performance with a single thread of execution compared to with the 10th gen CPUs, but until now we had nothing to hold onto except Intel's own statements.

The next generation of Intel Core will not only have representatives in the high ranges with the i9 and i7 but we will also see versions of this architecture in the form of i5 and i3 processors.

Rocket Lake-S versus 10th Gen Intel
Rocket Lake Reverso

The CPU with which the test has been done has a base speed of 3.4 GHz and 4.2 GHz in Boost, which is lower than expected,> 5 GHz, but we must not forget that the Rocket Lake-S will appear on the market during the first quarter of 2021, so the benchmarks may have been performed on a pre-release version of the CPU and the final version may have been somewhat better.

The results have been obtained in the UserBenchmark using a PC with the following specifications:

MSI Z590-A PRO-12VO motherboard
32 GB DDR4-2667, considering that according to Intel this new CPU supports DDR4-3200 memory, it is surprising that they use a slower memory for the performance test.

As you can see, the Core i7-10700K has an advantage in the clock speed, since it operates at 5.1 GHz compared to the 4.2 GHz of the Rocket Lake-S on which the test has been done.

It not only surpasses the i7-10700K but also the i9-10900K which is 18% higher despite the 5.3 GHz clock speed of the 10th generation processor.

This means that Intel has taken the threat from AMD with its Ryzen processors very seriously, especially with the recently introduced Zen 3, so we are going to see a fierce war between the two major players in the PC CPU market. At the same time it makes us wonder ... What would have happened if Intel's 10nm node hadn't been a fiasco?