Tuesday, February 16th 2021
Intel Core i9-11900T "Rocket Lake" Processor Allegedly Catches Up with Zen 3 in Single-Threaded Performance
When AMD announced its Ryzen 5000 series of processors based on the new Zen 3 architecture, the performance of these processors was the best on the market. Even in our own testing, we have found that AMD's Zen 3 core is the highest performing core on the market, even beating Intel's latest and greatest, the 10th generation of Core processors. However, Intel has been doing some silent work and the company has developed a new core to be used in the 11th generation "Rocket Lake" platform. Codenamed Cypress Cove, the design is representing a backport of the 10 nm Sunny Cove design, supposed to bring around 19% IPC improvement across the board.
If you were wondering if that was enough to catch up with AMD's Zen 3 IPC performance, look no further because we have Geekbench 5 performance results of Intel's 35 Watt Core i9-11900T processor. Having a base frequency of only 1.51 GHz, the CPU is capable of boosting one or two cores to the very high speed of 4.9 GHz, giving us a good example of the single-threaded performance we can expect from this CPU. In GB5 tests, the Core i9-11900T has managed to score 1717 points in the single-threaded test and 8349 points in multi-threaded results. Comparing that to something like AMD Ryzen 5800X, which scores 1674 points in single-threaded results, Rocket Lake's Cypress Cove core has managed to be 2.5% faster than Zen 3. However, in multi-threaded results, the AMD chip is unmatched as the low TDP of the Intel processor is stopping it from reaching full performance.
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Geekbench 5
If you were wondering if that was enough to catch up with AMD's Zen 3 IPC performance, look no further because we have Geekbench 5 performance results of Intel's 35 Watt Core i9-11900T processor. Having a base frequency of only 1.51 GHz, the CPU is capable of boosting one or two cores to the very high speed of 4.9 GHz, giving us a good example of the single-threaded performance we can expect from this CPU. In GB5 tests, the Core i9-11900T has managed to score 1717 points in the single-threaded test and 8349 points in multi-threaded results. Comparing that to something like AMD Ryzen 5800X, which scores 1674 points in single-threaded results, Rocket Lake's Cypress Cove core has managed to be 2.5% faster than Zen 3. However, in multi-threaded results, the AMD chip is unmatched as the low TDP of the Intel processor is stopping it from reaching full performance.
90 Comments on Intel Core i9-11900T "Rocket Lake" Processor Allegedly Catches Up with Zen 3 in Single-Threaded Performance
5.02 Ghz vs 5.3ghz that Rocket Lake will hit at PL2 around 250Watts.
There is no reason why Intel can't catch up to AMD and even beat them if AMD was able to catch up Intel. Intel is still way bigger than AMD and have much more money to throw at the problem than AMD.
Things can change quickly on the semi-conductor market. Just do go too much with all the hyperbole you see on youtube. They mostly do that to get your attention and get view.
I would call it an educated guess.
The current leaks show this.
I would wait for an official review.
By the way, I couldn't care less (and I have a 5800X) about the gaming crown.
And I'm well aware of your system specs.
We all need to wait until we have official reviews everyone is interested in seeing Intel's answer to increased competition and more so for Alderlake S. Rocket Lake S is a stop gap solution with no upgrade path and locked to 8 cores.
I'm very much looking forward to Intel being competitive again (and no, "competitive at 2x the power" doesn't count), but for now we have no clear indication as to when that might be. Intel won't be truly competitive again until it has a solid process node to build its chips on.
Beyond that there is Meteor Lake but that is where details get hazy.
Willow Cove has IPC increases over Rocket Lake, primarily due to more cache. Basically the same difference as Ice Lake to Tiger Lake on mobile. Golden Cove reportedly has additional improvements over that.
You complained about people bashing Intel and then you went off topic and started bashing AMD. At least the people complaining about Intel are on topic, you are not and are being hypocritical.