The march on efficiency with desktop platforms has distinctive challenges in comparison with different platforms. Peak single thread throughput is usually thought-about the Holy Grail, with a quick comply with up of fine multi-core and all-core efficiency given the character of how desktop platforms are used with background processes and a number of concurrent functions. In order to carry its greatest single core efficiency to the desktop market, Intel needed to redesign its 10nm product on 14nm, which mixes the excessive throughput of the design with the excessive frequency of 14nm. These redesigned Cypress Cove cores type the premise of Intel’s new 11th Gen Desktop Processor Family, Rocket Lake. Today we’re reviewing the Core i7-11700Ok, an eight-core processor with hyperthreading capable of increase as much as 5.Zero GHz.
Notice
The official launch date for these processors, and full evaluations, is March 30th. We are at the moment below NDA with Intel for the knowledge that has been offered by Intel, and can publish that data sooner or later. However, as famous in numerous press retailers, some models have already been offered at retail earlier than that gross sales date. Units obtained by that methodology usually are not below NDA by definition, and we obtained the Core i7-11700Ok for this overview at retail, and as such we’re not below NDA for any data we’ve got obtained via utilizing this processor.
Before publishing this overview, we gave Intel advance discover to answer us having a full overview forward of the formal launch. Our electronic mail seemingly generated some pleasure inside (and to our shock, outdoors) Intel, however we acquired a response from Intel stating that that they had no remark to supply.
Rocket Lake We Know About
Core i9-11900Ok and Core i7-11700Ok
Back firstly of the yr, throughout CES, Intel disclosed product details about its lead halo product on the Rocket Lake platform, the Core i9-11900Ok. This contains some microarchitecture particulars, in addition to core rely, frequency, reminiscence, graphics, and options referring to IO and the chipset. With our overview right here right this moment, we will add the 11700Ok to that knowledge with what we will probe from the processor.
| AnandTech | Core i9-11900Ok |
Core i7-11700Ok |
| SoC | Rocket Lake | Rocket Lake |
| Microarchitecture | Cypress Cove | Cypress Cove |
| Cores / Threads | 8 / 16 | 8 / 16 |
| TDP | 125 W | 125 W |
| Base Frequency | ? | 3600 MHz |
| Turbo 2.0 (1-2 C) | ? | 4900 MHz |
| Turbo 3.0 (1-2 C) | ? | 5000 MHz |
| Thermal Velocity Boost | 5300 MHz | – |
| All Core Turbo | 4800 MHz | 4600 MHz |
| DDR4 | 2 x DDR4-3200 | 2 x DDR4-3200 |
| GPU + EUs | Xe-LP, 32 EUs | Xe-LP, 32 EUs |
| PCIe | 4.Zero x16 + 4.Zero x4 | 4.0×16 + 4.Zero x4 |
| AVX-512 | Yes | Yes |
| Price | ? | We paid equal $469 |
The variations between the 2 Rocket Lake processors, based mostly on accessible data, are slim. The most important distinction is that the Core i9 is understood to have Intel’s Thermal Velocity Boost expertise, nevertheless the Core i7 doesn’t – this implies the height frequency is just 5.Zero GHz, not 5.Three GHz. The all core frequency is just 200 MHz completely different.
The new era Rocket Lake is the mixture of two completely different backported applied sciences. Intel took the Sunny Cove core from 10nm Ice Lake, and re-built it on 14nm, calling it now Cypress Cove. Intel additionally took the Xe graphics from 10nm Tiger Lake and re-built these on 14nm, however these are nonetheless referred to as Xe graphics.
We can see that the brand new design is an amalgam of recent applied sciences, by evaluating Rocket Lake to Comet Lake, Ice Lake, and Tiger Lake:
| Microarchitecture Comparison | |||||
| AnandTech | Comet Lake |
Rocket Lake |
Ice Lake |
Tiger Lake |
Ryzen 5000 |
| Form Factor | Desktop | Desktop | Laptop | Laptop | Desktop |
| Max Cores | 10 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 16 |
| TDP | 125 W | 125 W | 28 W | 35 W | 105 W |
