PassMark database information confirms early leaks that the base frequency of the 8-core and 16-thread Core i7-11700K is 3.6 GHz, and in auto-overclocking mode, it rises to 5.0 GHz. With these settings, the chip showed the final CPU Mark performance result of 27,108 points, thereby beating the current flagship Intel Core i9-10900K by 3,010 points in the same indicator. Let’s clarify that the CPU Mark value is based on the results of subtests, most of which assess the multicore performance of the central processor.

In the PassMark single-core test, the Core i7-11700K chip scored 374 points more than the Core i9-10900K and 48 points more than the flagship AMD Ryzen 9 5950X. However, Intel’s new product naturally yielded to the latter in the multi-core test by 18,913 points, since AMD’s flagship solution has twice as many physical and virtual cores.

It should be noted that the Intel Core i7-11700K has been tested in PassMark only once, while the results of all the above processors are based on the average performance value from 300 to 1000 tests. In other words, the arithmetic average performance of the Intel chip can only be judged after it appears on the market when more users will be able to test it in this synthetic benchmark. And yet, at the moment, the new Intel was about 14% faster than its predecessor Core i7-10700K in the single-core PassMark test and up to 33% faster in multi-thread. Intel’s 11th generation Rocket Lake-S processors are expected to be announced at CES 2021. According to the latest data, these processors will not be available until March. They will still be based on the 14nm manufacturing process but will receive a new architecture for the Cypress Cove cores. The most important features of the new Intel chips will be full support for the PCIe 4.0 interface, as well as the integrated Intel Xe graphics subsystem of the 12th generation. The main drawback of Rocket Lake-S is the lack of models with more than eight cores in the series, which will definitely affect the performance results in some everyday tasks against the background of the latest solutions from AMD.