Intel Core I7-11700K Review: Blasting Off with Rocket Lake

Re:Intel Core I7-11700K Review: Blasting Off with Rocket Lake by wtallis on Saturday March 06, 2021 @12:36AM (#26365477)

This chips really don't seem to be a good use of Intel's limited fab capacity. The CPU cores are substantially larger while offering basically no benefits other than AVX-512 support. It looks like Intel would have been better off pairing the upgraded IO and integrated graphics with their existing, smaller Skylake cores.

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Re:Intel Core I7-11700K Review: Blasting Off with Rocket Lake by dragontamer on Saturday March 06, 2021 @12:50AM (#26365517)

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Pretty much every Rocket-lake score is faster than Skylake across the board.

I'd definitely buy a Rocket Lake over any old Skylake based off of these reviews. Rocket Lake seems a wee-bit inferior to Zen3, but AMD Zen3 is pretty much sold out, so if you need a computer, Intel is still there.

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Re:Intel Core I7-11700K Review: Blasting Off with Rocket Lake by kllrnohj on Saturday March 06, 2021 @07:33AM (#26366964)

> Pretty much every Rocket-lake score is faster than Skylake across the board

Except for gaming, where rocket-lake is across the board slower. Which is important since gaming was Intel's last holdout prior to the arrival of Zen3. So if you're gaming this is worse, and if you're not gaming why would you go with this over a 3900x at basically the same price? Even verse skylake if you're doing productivity stuff a 10920x seems likely to be consistently faster thanks to 50% more cores (and way way more pcie lanes if you're into that)

The only reason to get this seems to be if the unique combination of avx512, no ECC, and only up to 8 cores is somehow ideal for your use case.

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Re:Intel Core I7-11700K Review: Blasting Off with Rocket Lake by wtallis on Saturday March 06, 2021 @01:33AM (#26365648)

But Intel doesn't need the incremental performance increase in order to sell their processors. With AMD so supply-limited, Intel should be trying to sell smaller, cheaper processors that they can produce in larger volume with higher margins.

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Re:Intel Core I7-11700K Review: Blasting Off with Rocket Lake by totalZero on Saturday March 06, 2021 @04:37AM (#26366297)

Ignoring both sides of the performance debate entirely, Intel found a way to increase utilization of 14nm process in a time when sector-wide demand exceeds supply. It seems very smart to use 14nm because it presents a lower opportunity cost versus getting worse yield on 10nm process node and taking capacity away from laptop chips, an area where AMD has been struggling to meet demand.

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