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JEMC said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

That was a QF, a qualifying Sample, not an ES. So the clock speeds are pretty much final by now. And they have to if they are supposed to ship in Q1 as intended.

The i9 11900K can beat the 5800X in Cinebench R20 by 7% in single-core, and even beats it's 8-core predecessor (i7 10700K) by 33% and with similar leads in R23 and CPU-Z sincgle-core tests. But with only a 4.4Ghz Allcore boost and 3.5Ghz base, I doubt it can keep up with Ryzen in anything multicore. Also, the chip drew 160W during it's tests, so not exactly low on power consumption either.

But I think the best news come from it's platform: Not only does Intel enter the PCI-E 4.x era with this chip, the B560 will finally allow Memory Overclocking again on non-Z chipsets.

When I read the news at Videocardz, they labeled the chips as Engineering Samples. Maybe the article is wrong, I don't know. But what I can see is that it makes no sense at all that the 11700 has a much, much higher base clock than the 11900, unless at least one of them is still an ES.

The 11900 non-k was an ES; the 11900K, about whom I'm talking here about, is a QS, as is the 11700K (3.4Ghz Base, 4.3Ghz Allcore, 4.8Ghz Singlecore boost)

Oh, and while we're at it: Only the i9, i7 and i5 will actually be Rocket Lake; i3, Pentium and Celeron will be a Comet Lake Refresh