Intel Core i7-11700K Rocket Lake 8 Core CPU Benchmarks Leak Out Again in Geekbench, 5.0 GHz Clocks & Up To 25% Faster Than Core i7-10700K-November 2024-www.yitit.com

Intel's Core i7-11700K Rocket Lake CPU has made a second appearance in the Geekbench database and benchmarked on the Z490 platform. The leaked benchmark was spotted by TUM_APISAK & the results show a significant double-digit gain over its predecessor in both single and multi-core tests.

Intel Core i7-11700K 8 Core Rocket Lake CPU Benchmarks Leak Out Again, Double-Digit Performance Gains Over Comet Lake

The Intel Core i7 lineup is directly positioned against the Ryzen 7 lineup however, it looks like the same would be the case for the Core i9 lineup this generation since both tiers will end up with 8 cores and 16 threads while AMD can maximize its core count up to 16 cores on its Ryzen 9 family.

Intel has been reported to feature some massive price adjustments to match the Core i9-11900K against the Ryzen 9 5900X and the Core i7-11700K against the Ryzen 7 5800X. The Ryzen 9 5950X will remain in the ultimate enthusiast CPU category but the new cypress cove cores will offer better single-threaded performance vs AMD's Zen 3 core architecture so the battle is going to be really interesting in 2021.

Intel Core i7-11700K 8 Core & 16 Thread Rocket Lake Desktop CPU Specifications

Coming to the specifications, we see that Intel won't be segmenting the core/thread count on a tier below Core i9. The Core i7-11700K features the same core configuration as the Core i9-11900K but comes with reduced clock speeds. The chip is said to feature a base clock of 3.60 GHz boost clock of 5.0 GHz on a single & 4.6 GHz across all of its 8 cores. The CPU will even carry the same amount of cache so nothing has changed but the main difference should come from the clocks and power limits. This lower-binned chip will sit at around 225-250W (PL2) limit while the PL1 limit will be standard at 125W.

It will be interesting to see how Rocket Lake CPUs overclock since the minute difference between the Core i9 and Core i7 chips can be overcome by a small overclock. As for pricing, the Core i7 will also be cheaper than the Core i9 variant but we don't know yet how Intel will price its 8 core Rocket Lake-S Desktop CPUs yet.

Intel 11th Gen Rocket Lake Desktop CPU Lineup Specs (Preliminary):

CPU Name	Cores / Threads	Base Clock	Boost Clock (1-Core)	Boost Clock (All-Core)	Cache	Graphics	TDP (PL1)	TDP (PL2)	Price
Core i9-11900K(F)	8 / 16	3.50 GHz	5.30 GHz	4.80 GHz	16 MB	Intel Xe 32 EU (256 Cores)	125W	251W	$539 US (K) $513 US (KF)
Core i9-11900(F)	8 / 16	2.50 GHz	5.20 GHz	4.70 GHz	16 MB	Intel Xe 32 EU (256 Cores)	65W	224W	$439 US $422 US (F)
Core i9-11900T	8 / 16	1.50 GHz	4.90 GHz	3.70 GHz	16 MB	Intel Xe 32 EU (256 Cores)	35W	115W	$439 US
Core i7-11700K(F)	8 / 16	3.60 GHz	5.00 GHz	4.60 GHz	16 MB	Intel Xe 32 EU (256 Cores)	125W	251W	$399 US (K) $374 US (F)
Core i7-11700(F)	8 / 16	2.50 GHz	4.90 GHz	4.40 GHz	16 MB	Intel Xe 32 EU (256 Cores)	65W	224W	$323 US $298 US (F)
Core i7-11700T	8 / 16	1.40 GHz	4.60 GHz	3.60 GHz	16 MB	Intel Xe 32 EU (256 Cores)	35W	115W	$323 US
Core i5-11600K(F)	6 /12	3.90 GHz	4.90 GHz	4.60 GHz	12 MB	Intel Xe 32 EU (256 Cores)	125W	224W?	$262 US (K) $237 US (KF)
Core i5-11600	6 /12	2.80 GHz	4.80 GHz	4.30 GHz	12 MB	Intel Xe 32 EU (256 Cores)	65W	154W	$213 US
Core i5-11600T	6 /12	1.70 GHz	4.10 GHz	3.50 GHz	12 MB	Intel Xe 32 EU (256 Cores)	35W	92W	$213 US
Core i5-11500	6 /12	2.70 GHz	4.60 GHz	4.20 GHz	12 MB	Intel Xe 32 EU (256 Cores)	65W	154W	$192 US
Core i5-11500T	6 /12	1.50 GHz	3.90 GHz	3.40 GHz	12 MB	Intel Xe 32 EU (256 Cores)	35W	92W	$192 US
Core i5-11400(F)	6 /12	2.60 GHz	4.40 GHz	4.20 GHz	12 MB	Intel Xe 24 EU (192 Cores)	65W	154W	$182 US $157 US (F)
Core i5-11400T	6 /12	1.30 GHz	3.70 GHz	3.30 GHz	12 MB	Intel Xe 24 EU (192 Cores)	35W	92W	$182 US