Intel 11th Gen 'Rocket Lake' Desktop Us Launched 2u4x56 Including Flagship Core i9-11900K

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By Jamshed Avari | Updated: 17 March 2021 12:24 IST

Intel 11th Gen 'Rocket Lake' Desktop Us Launched, Including Flagship Core i9-11900K

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New Core i9, Core i7, and Core i7 Us have been announced

Highlights

The Core i9-11900K runs at up to 5.3GHz with Thermal Velocity Boost
New 500-series motherboards will be needed to harness all capabilities
The Cypress Cove architecture is a 14nm backport of the 10nm Sunny Cove

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Intel's 11th Gen desktop Us, known by their code name 'Rocket Lake', have just been announced. Aimed primarily at gamers and desktop enthusiasts, these Us are based on a new 'Cypress Cove' core architecture and many of them feature more powerful integrated long-running 14nm manufacturing process to ensure that it can meet demand.

Wi-Fi 6E, updated media decode hardware, and new overclocking tools.

There are five new Core i9 models including the new flagship Core i9-11900K, five new Core i7 models, and nine new Core i5 models. Along with these, Intel is rolling out new 500-series chipsets although the Us are technically backward compatible with current-gen 400-series chipset-based motherboards. The company has also announced new refreshed 10th Gen Core i3 and Pentium Gold desktop Us to round out the lower end of the market.

The top-end Core i9-11900K is aimed at gamers and content creators. It features eight cores with Hyper-Threading, which is actually fewer than the 10 cores and 20 threads of the previous-gen Core i9-10900K. Intel says overall performance makes up for that, although certain heavily multi-threaded edge cases might not perform as well. This U features a top speed of 5.3GHz on one core (and 4.8GHz on all cores) thanks to Intel's Thermal Velocity Boost feature when a powerful enough cooling solution can be leveraged. It features a 16MB cache and 125W TDP rating. There's also a Core i9-11900KF model which does not feature integrated Intel Xe graphics, and a Core i9-11900 which has a 65W TDP and 5.2GHz peak speed.

The more mainstream Core i7-11700K also has eight cores and 16 threads but lacks Thermal Velocity Boost. Peak speed is up to 5GHz and there's 16MB of cache memory with a 125W TDP for this model as well. The Core i5 models feature six cores and 12 threads with 12MB of cache memory, and up to 125W rated TDPs for the unlocked SKUs. The Core i5-11600KF has a top Turbo Boost speed of 4.9GHz.

Intel will be hoping to take on AMD's Ryzen 5000 series, which have proven to be excellent at single-threaded and multi-threaded workloads. Retail pricing for India is yet to be disclosed. 11th Gen Us should go on sale in the US on March 30, and are expected to be in retail in India at around the same time.

All 11th Gen 'Rocket Lake' Us will be compatible with previous-gen 400-series chipsets except the low-end B460 and H410, and all 10th Gen 'Comet Lake' Us will continue to work with new 500-series motherboards. You'll need a 500-series motherboard to harness PCIe 4.0, integrated USB 3.2 Gen 2x2, and faster DMI interconnect with the latest Us. Interestingly, Intel now allows memory overclocking on even mid-range 500-series motherboards.

Intel has previously disclosed details of its 12th Gen 'Alder Lake' architecture which will finally move the company's desktop offerings to 10nm and introduce a heterogenous mix of powerful and power-efficient cores for the first time. These Us are expected to launch towards the end of 2021.

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