Intel Announced 11th-Gen Rocket Lake Processors, Rivaling AMD Ryzen Chips

Intel has finally revealed all the details of its upcoming 11th-gen Rocket Lake processors. In fact, a lot of information had already been leaked before the announcements and many users had got their hands on the new chips, but there was still fresh information to wrap.

Intel’s 11th-gen processors are 14nm units but the company said it will be able to improve gen-over-gen performance through some key architectural changes. The Rocket Lake CPUs are based on the Cypress Cove architecture consisting of the 10nm node of Ice Lake ported back to 14nm along with Tiger Lake graphics.

Essentially, the new 11th-gen desktop CPUs share some features with the 11th-gen mobile processors, making this the first time Intel has re-done its desktop architecture in 5 years.

Porting back to a 14nm node also means that Intel could fit only 8 cores and 16 threads on its new CPUs. However, the new architecture also means more instructions can be executed in a clock cycle. The company said that it could increase the number of instructions per cycle by 19 percent but using the new architecture helps boost the integrated graphics performance by 50%.

In terms of gaming, the new architecture provides an 8-14% boost in frames per second when comparing the Core i9-11900K and the Core i9-10900K. There’s also a 7-16% boost in frames per second when comparing the Core i5-11600K and the Core i5-10600K. According to Intel, the i9-11900K performs about 3-11% better than the AMD Ryzen 5900X in some titles.

The chipmaker also boasted improved processing times across many creative tasks, such as video creation, photo tagging, as well as other productivity tasks using Microsoft Office programs. Compared with the 10th-gen processors, the 11th-gen Core i9 processor is 88 percent faster in video creation workflows and 35 percent faster than the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X processor.

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