[Hardware] Intel will give war with Rocket Lake-S to AMD, first data in GeekBench

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AMD is sweeping sales as we saw earlier this week, a processor that is selling a processor that is sold. Demand outstrips supply by far and Intel is seeing them coming in the meantime, but it is not asleep, far from it. Today the first performance data of its new and revolutionary Rocket Lake-S architecture has been leaked in Geekbench and if we are right, AMD and Zen 3 are going to have a tough rival in both Single Thread and Multi Thread.

The fever for Zen 3 can last for a relatively short time, and is that Intel has already prepared its new Rocket Lake-S architecture with which it plans to close the LGA 1200 socket to later make the leap to Alder Lake-S already in the LGA 1700 with many improvements along the way. Meanwhile, the first data in Geekbench 5 is here and looking at the frequencies at which the CPU has been tested, it is more than likely that AMD will be in trouble to stop Intel again.

Intel Rocket Lake-S on Geekbench, a formidable competitor for Zen 3?
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Let no one bury Intel yet, because, although the beating that is taking by AMD will be remembered as the second largest after Athlon 64, Zen 3 will not have it so easy nor will it delay its hegemony for so long, far from it.

The first data from Geekbench 5 with a Rocket Lake-S processor with 8 cores and 16 threads that could well be a supposed 11900K or similar, suggest that, although the CPU is cataloged with stepping 0 despite already being listed as Family 6 and Model 167, Intel is going to make things difficult for AMD.

The frequencies seen have been 3.4 GHz for the Base Clock and 5 GHz for the Boost mode, which suggests the changes in the core architecture that the equipment where it has been mounted (HP OMEN 30L GT13-0xxx) does not he's getting the most out of it that he should. Why? Well, because the latest rumors indicate that we could see frequencies close to 5.5 GHz, perhaps at peak, so there would be room for improvement in this sample.

Very close to the Ryzen 7 5800X with equal cores and threads
Rocket Lake-S Geekbench

To be specific and brief, we will say that the scores obtained by this Engineering Sample have been 1645 points in Single Core and 9783 points in Multi Thread within the Geekbench 5 suite, which, although it is not 100% reliable to the final performance, we already It gives a glimpse of where the disputes for the market are going to be.

It should be remembered that, except for surprise, Intel will not launch a 10-core CPU with Rocket Lake-S, since it focuses on architectural changes and separating cores and iGPUs. To put the scores achieved by this CPU into perspective, according to Geekbench 5 the average score of the Ryzen 7 5800X is 1161 and 10367 points respectively.

This means that at 1 core the equality is maximum, while in several cores the differences are 5.96%. Therefore, if the frequency rise occurs as expected, we could be talking about Intel dethroning AMD again, possibly by the minimum and already with PCIe 4.0 up its sleeve.

As always, it will be necessary to see the final performance and prices, but what is undoubted is that they will be very close, both platforms come to an end and as always it will be the user who dictates the sentence.