Posted on Wednesday, October 14 2020 @ 15:16 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Some fresh rumors emerged about Intel's Rocket Lake-S. This will hopefully be the last 14nm desktop architecture from Intel. WCCF Tech offers a compilation of the rumors
over here. Rocket Lake-S will have a maximum of eight cores and sixteen thread and will reportedly easily overclock all cores to 5GHz. The platform will support PCI Express 4.0 and will have Xe-based integrated graphics. There's more cache and the architecture is allegedly specifically tuned for gaming. So the word on the street is that gaming performance will see a big boost but that Intel will not be able to beat AMD in multi-core benchmarks.
Supports PCI-e Gen 4.0 Protocol
AVX512 can achieve greater performance (But it runs really hot even under 8 cores and leads to higher power consumption)
Both L1 cache & L2 cache sizes have increased. 10th generation core is L1 32KB / L2 256KB while 11th generation core is L1 48KB / L2 512KB.
Summary: Although the 11th generation Core is 14nm, there is a real change in performance.
Architecture has improved gaming performance. It is a lot stronger than the 10th generation Core, but it is still a long way from AMD in Cinebench R20 and R15 (Multi-threading) because core count is still only 8 cores while AMD has up to 16 cores.
It is very easy to run overclock all cores to 5 GHz.
Drop-in compatibility with Z490 motherboards with PCIe 4.0 support on boards that have the necessary hardware integration. Z490 VRMs are sufficient to overclock the 11th generation.
