Short-lived happiness for Zen 3? Intel Rocket Lake-S Core i9-11900 QS: up to 7% lead over the Ryzen 7 5800X and up to 33% over the Core i9-10900K; Core i9-11900 ES2 similar to 9900K/10700K

[Redaktion]

Initial single-core performance numbers from an Intel Rocket Lake-S Core i9-11900K QS indicate up to 33% higher scores than a Core i9-10900K and up to 7% more performance than an AMD Ryzen 7 5800X despite sub-optimal cooling. Also being leaked are clocks and power info of several ES variants including the Core i7-11700 ES1, Core i7-11700K ES2, and the Core i9-11900 ES2.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Short-lived-happiness-for-Zen-3-Intel-Rocket-Lake-S-Core-i9-11900-QS-up-to-7-lead-over-the-Ryzen-7-5800X-and-up-to-33-over-the-Core-i9-10900K-Core-i9-11900-ES2-similar-to-9900K-10700K.512255.0.html

[Grinnie Jax]

Oh, come on! Short-lived happiness you say? Zen 3 are being sold since October and what about those Rocket Lake? Basically comparing existing 2020 CPUs with some mysterious future CPU from 2021, which "wins" an astonishing 5-7% in Single Core consuming x2 power? And, I believe, it would be completely destroyed in Multi Core even by 5800X, not saying that it'll cost as 5900X. Finally, Rocket Lake will most probably have to compete with the upcoming Zen 3+ Rembrandt CPUs - so you'll have to write again "Rocket Lake short-lived, completely annihilated by Zen 3+"

[ariliquin]

Reading your guys articles is like watching a soap opera, this is borderline click bait. Compare apples with apples, what is the performance comparison to the 5950x which is what this CPU is designed to compete with? What is the price difference in power consumption over 12 months? What a joke.

[Gee]

Take it with a grain of salt.
It might be AVX instruction benchmarks or LN over-clocks or both
Hope Intel flood the markets at cheaper prices though

[Kevin fr Jakarta]

You'd think that if they have a 33% IPC improvement Gen over Gen, they'd already be telling the whole world to save their shrinking stock price, wouldn't they?

[Russel]

Clickbait... You don't compare something that has been out there for a while with something that might not even get released in a month or two. That too before you take into consideration intel's constant delays, their tendency to focus on laptop space and the ongoing issues with the foundries.
You could've changed the title if you actually wanted to report the same. Something like competition is back in desktop space would actually be more accurate.

[hecarius]

even if this were real i find it really stupid that intel's top of the line isn't being compared to amd's best
where are the 5800x and 5950x lol

[Rahoor]

Articles like this make me question this website's reputation.

[angus mecoatup]

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X tops the Geekbench 5 Single-core charts with a score of 1713 points, making Intel's Rocket Lake chip about 5.5% faster in single-threaded applications.

But, the catch to note with these scores is that Geekbench 5 uses AVX-512, which makes Intel's scores slightly inflated as only Rocket Lake supports it. Consequently, just because Intel's chip performs 5.5% faster in GeekBench 5, that does not mean it will perform faster than AMD's Zen 3 chips in real-world, single-threaded applications as there are no applications that use this yet -- and this is likely to remain so for quite some time to come. -- a less clickbait biased article

[Nicholas Davison]

Not like Intel to leak misleading test results that are deceptively skewed in their favour is it?  :-X

[Franci J]

This is an utter joke - comparing Intel's so called latest with a mid range AMD CPU. Articles like this make us question the credibility of the website. Surely you can do better than just trying to bring down AMD when it's clear they are in the lead.

Disgraceful article.

[John in Brisbane]

Intel, like nvidia, have been sitting on their hands for years. A 1/3 uplift would be impressive in a normal cycle but in this context they're revealing how badly they held back development.

[Mil0dV]

So if you do the math, 5 Ghz/4.7 GHz = 6.4% higher clock. So basically Intel has managed to reach Zen 3 IPC in some benchmarks. Which isn't bad, but yeah, as the other commenters said, article is a little clickbaity. I'd suggest maybe trying some A/B testing with less clickbaity stuff, and also think about the audience/commentators you want. We have enough wccftechs around.

Back on topic: nice to see the race is fully on! Let's see how far these giants can push each other, and how well they'll be able to meet the oncoming ARM challengers. And don't rule out risc-v just yet. Interesting times.

[Hazwan]

An i5 11400/f with memory oc on a b560m mortar would be my choice..😍

[Jediwombat]

This is utter nonsense. You've got a not-yet-released Intel chip, rumoured benchmarks, you're comparing against the mid-range AMD chip, and only in a single test, which uses an instruction set that favours Intel.

This whole site is now on my block list. I encourage others to do the same. These guys are clearly on Intel's payroll.