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Bofferbrauer2 said:

JEMC said:

AMD better don't get too comfy because they'll strike back. Intel is already in motion to do it:

Intel’s 11th Gen 8 Core & 16 Thread Rocket Lake CPU Benchmarked on MSI Z590-A PRO Motherboard – Early 4.2 GHz Sample Up To 21% Faster Than i7-10700K in Single-Core Tests
https://wccftech.com/intel-8-core-16-thread-rocket-lake-cpu-benchmarks-leak-msi-z590-motherboard/
Yesterday, Intel officially lifted the curtains of its 11th Gen Rocket Lake Desktop CPU which will be launching in Q1 2021. Intel provided a high-level overview of the features and some specifications that its lineup would feature which definitely are their way of saying to consumers that we've also got something coming for the mainstream desktop segment. Now the latest benchmarks of Intel's Rocket Lake CPUs have leaked within UserBenchmark database (via TUM_APISAK) that show some huge gains in single-core performance on early engineering samples.

The benchmarks show an unreleased 11th Gen Intel Rocket Lake Desktop CPU. The CPU comes with 8 cores and 16 threads which should be the maximum core and thread count on the Rocket Lake lineup. The CPU also has its clock speeds listed at 3.4 GHz base and 4.2 GHz boost which are lower than what Intel has hinted us. According to Intel themselves, the Intel Rocket Lake Desktop CPUs will come in Core i9, Core i7, Core i5 flavors and rock frequencies beyond 5 GHz so 4.2 GHz max clocks are not even close to the final retail variants which launch early next year.

About that bench:

1. Is it sure that this is Rocket Lake - or could that be an Alder Lake already?
2. The bench run was only 130s long - that could have fit into the boost period and drop off sharply afterwards or towards the end
3. It barely beats current gen, so I doubt I will hold well against third gen Zen.
4. Are the clock speed readouts correct? This is not always true on ES chips.

As for Intel's touted clock speeds, I don't remember them saying anything about all-core speed, only maximum speed, which is purely single-core. So I'll wait until Intel goes more into detail before I'll hold my breath.

As you can see from the leak on twitter, the Alder Lake part is a guess, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's an accurate one. But that, and everything else, is open to debate.