A reddit post explains why the Anandtech i7-11700K review may have presented poor results in most gaming and synthetic benchmarks. This could be due to Intel misleadingly advertising inferior stock settings for the RAM controllers on all SKUs below the i9-11900K(F).
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-appears-to-artificially-segment-its-new-Rocket-Lake-desktop-CPU-lineup-by-limiting-the-memory-controllers-on-non-i9K-F-SKUs.527238.0.html