Monday, December 28th 2020

Intel Core i7-11700K "Rocket Lake" CPU Outperforms AMD Ryzen 9 5950X in Single-Core Tests

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Intel's Rocket Lake-S platform is scheduled to arrive at the beginning of the following year, which is just a few days away. The Rocket Lake lineup of processors is going to be Intel's 11th generation of Core desktop CPUs and the platform is expected to make a debut with Intel's newest Cypress Cove core design. Thanks to the Geekbench 5 submission, we have the latest information about the performance of the upcoming Intel Core i7-11700K 8C/16T processor. Based on the Cypress Cove core, the CPU is allegedly bringing a double-digit IPC increase, according to Intel.

In the single-core result, the CPU has managed to score 1807 points, while the multi-core score is 10673 points. The CPU ran at the base clock of 3.6 GHz, while the boost frequency is fixed at 5.0 GHz. Compared to the previous, 10th generation, Intel Core i7-10700K which scores 1349 single-core score and 8973 points multi-core score, the Rocket Lake CPU has managed to put out 34% higher single-core and 19% higher multi-core score. When it comes to the comparison to AMD offerings, the highest-end Ryzen 9 5950X is about 7.5% slower in single-core result, and of course much faster in multi-core result thanks to double the number of cores.
Sources: Leakbench, via VideoCardz

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114 Comments on Intel Core i7-11700K "Rocket Lake" CPU Outperforms AMD Ryzen 9 5950X in Single-Core Tests

#101
Vya Domus
dragontamer5788If anything, these CPU-manufacturers prove how important AES is to today's workloads, be it server or client.
Yes it has it’s importance but lets not kid ourselves too much, stuff like improving AES performance are easy wins to make a CPU look better in synthetic test.
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#102
efikkan
dragontamer5788CLang is probably not so common, but probably is representative of Javascript. SQLite is in a bunch of random stuff, so its probably a good benchmark today.
The primary problem with Geekbench is that it's synthetic, it doesn't translate into any real world performance. As with all benchmarking, the most important thing is what the benchmark is actually benchmarking. Geekbench isn't useful at all for any consumers, perhaps somewhat useful for some scientific work, but it's really benchmarking the implementation not the hardware here. People should never use Geekbench to extrapolate generic real world performance, no matter how "balanced" the workload may be. Real applications should always be the way we measure CPUs.

BTW, Clang is the C/C++/ObjC frontend for LLVM, a very common compiler, nothing to do with JavaScript.
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#103
dragontamer5788
efikkanThe primary problem with Geekbench is that it's synthetic, it doesn't translate into any real world performance. As with all benchmarking, the most important thing is what the benchmark is actually benchmarking. Geekbench isn't useful at all for any consumers, perhaps somewhat useful for some scientific work, but it's really benchmarking the implementation not the hardware here. People should never use Geekbench to extrapolate generic real world performance, no matter how "balanced" the workload may be. Real applications should always be the way we measure CPUs.

BTW, Clang is the C/C++/ObjC frontend for LLVM, a very common compiler, nothing to do with JavaScript.
Javascript is a C-like language, composed of for-statements, and {} brackets. Parsing Javascript code probably is very similar to Clang compiles.

Especially when you consider that modern Javascript is JIT-compiled into assembly language these days.
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#104
AleXXX666
Legacy-ZAI wonder how many new security flaws this generation will have. :roll:
Wait, are these jokes still actual? Come on, stop living in 2019...:kookoo:
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#105
pexxie
Amazing what a little extra CPU cache can do.

Per-Core L1-L2 Caches:
10700K: 32KB-32KB-256KB
11700K: 32KB-48KB-512KB
5950X: 32KB-32KB-512KB

Although Intel now offering a bigger L1 Data Cache (48KB) than AMD's flagship (32KB) looks like a bit of desperation, and/or the inability to make the gains elsewhere.
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#106
Tom Sunday
freeagent2021 should be a good year for CPU sales from both camps!
Your are 100% correct. Many choices and with Intel alone pushing their 11th and 12th generations CPU's on the market and all within months of each other. Motherboard producers will also be having a field-day or 'double-dip' sales opportunities. My question reading your message is: "Will Intel buyers purchase Rocket Lake or wait a few months for Alder Lake with its advertised PCIE 5.0 and DDR5?" Besides Intel's brand new and physically much larger (rectangular) and better performing Z590 CPU. The old addage prevails many must have the 'latest and the greatest no matter what.
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#107
RandallFlagg
Thinking about this a bit more, and looking at how I use my corporate laptop, AES encryption is way more important in that sector - more than geekbench is weighting it.

Typical workload for me would include VPN to corporate network, 4-6 browser tabs, 1-4 server RDP connections, one or more SSMS (SQL Server) connections, connection to SVN code repositories, and one or more SSH connections. All of these are encrypted, and while not all are in use at once (maybe one or two) many like RDP are exchanging data to do things like screen updates.

A typical user may have even more connections, albeit different types. Shared file systems - and all the different apps that can use that (many, many), web tabs, Oracle application UIs, SSH to unix applications, and so on. Most if not all are secured connections, hence encrypted.

So yeah, AES performance is critical.

There's a relatively new benchmark out for the 11700K. This one is on Geekbench 4.4

browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/15972177
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#108
Tom Sunday
Who really cares about Geekbench, Core Workloads, HTTP AES, Security or Realworld's! For the man on the street it's mostly to have the latest and the greatest, not talking things to death and taking prisoners later. If there are problems after the purchase most are sure there will be ready-made manufacturer fixes being made available. Its like the masses out there do not care about overclocking either and potentially wringing out a mere percentage point of more performance. For them its too complicated, nerve-racking, uncertain and takes too much time. As such the masses want to keep things simple, uncomplicated and turning on their PC and it simply works.
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#109
AleXXX666
Tom SundayYour are 100% correct. Many choices and with Intel alone pushing their 11th and 12th generations CPU's on the market and all within months of each other. Motherboard producers will also be having a field-day or 'double-dip' sales opportunities. My question reading your message is: "Will Intel buyers purchase Rocket Lake or wait a few months for Alder Lake with its advertised PCIE 5.0 and DDR5?" Besides Intel's brand new and physically much larger (rectangular) and better performing Z590 CPU. The old addage prevails many must have the 'latest and the greatest no matter what.
Lol where you see DDR5 in sale?
Or it will be, 1.5x the price DDR4 - no thank you, lmfao
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#110
efikkan
Tom SundayMy question reading your message is: "Will Intel buyers purchase Rocket Lake or wait a few months for Alder Lake with its advertised PCIE 5.0 and DDR5?"
"A few months"?
At best, we're talking about the very end of 2021, much more likely mid-2022.
People should generally not wait unless the next big jump is imminent.
PCIE 5 and DDR5 will be much more relevant for HEDT and servers than the mainstream.
RandallFlaggSo yeah, AES performance is critical.
AES is important, yet do you know if all those applications are rewritten and recompiled to use these new AES instructions? (hint: they're not)
So unless someone rewrite that software and recompile it, those Geekbench scores are not that useful.
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#111
Tom Sunday
efikkanAt best, we're talking about the very end of 2021, much more likely mid-2022.

Our friends at INTEL are having their "Earnings Call" on Thursday, January 28. Mr. Huang of NVIDIA will be on call by Thursday, February 11. Wall Street and investors want to see 'cash-flow' and especially with AMD for now having turned on the heat. Besides what progress will Huang be reporting on his US$40 billion purchase? Timing is everything.
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#112
RandallFlagg
efikkanAES is important, yet do you know if all those applications are rewritten and recompiled to use these new AES instructions? (hint: they're not)
So unless someone rewrite that software and recompile it, those Geekbench scores are not that useful.
You don't write your own encryption algorithms unless you work for a security company selling things like a 3rd party vpn client. You use the built-in libraries and functions of the OS if you need to do a custom secure transport, using things like TLS library calls. The TLS library is where the algorithm would be.

Most of the time, you don't even do that. An example of something standard would be, where I deploy a web application that is using HTTPS (handled by IIS) and possibly a SSO service like GetAccess. The web developer does not write any encryption algorithms for that, it's part of IIS.

VAES512 has been around since 2017. It is not the same thing as AVX-512 which you may be getting it confused with. It's already used on most encryption libraries, and by most operating systems, and major 3rd party encryption / security providers.
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#113
AteXIleR
It is rather impressive. I could not yet go over 1600 even at 5.6 with my 9900K.
The single core performance must have substantially been improved then.
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