MSI accidentally revealed the characteristics of an engineering sample of the older Intel Rocket Lake-S
As part of the demonstration of the Re-Size BAR function, which will be endowed with motherboards based on Intel 400-series system logic in the future, MSI accidentally revealed the technical characteristics of an engineering sample of an Intel Rocket Lake-S processor. Recall that this series of processors will be announced only next year.
MSI announced that the Re-Size BAR, which powers AMD Smart Access Memory (SAM) technology, will also work on its Intel processor motherboards.
Thanks to this function, the CPUs will be able to use the entire video memory array of video cards at once, which can lead to an increase in performance in some games. As an example, the manufacturer provided screenshots of the CPU-Z program, which shows that the function works with the MSI MEG Z490 Godlike board paired with the Radeon RX 6800 graphics accelerator. An additional feature of the published image was a lighted engineering sample of an 8-core and 16-thread Intel processor Rocket Lake-S. At the time of this writing, MSI has removed the presentation page (apparently for correction), but some resources have saved screenshots.
One of them shows that the operating frequency range of the 8-core Rocket Lake-S processor is from 3.4 to 4.3 GHz. However, the maximum chip multiplier is x50. Thus, in automatic overclocking mode, its frequency can reach 5.0 GHz. It is very likely that the presented chip is an engineering sample of the future flagship Intel Core i9-11900K, which we recently wrote about. The image indicates that it has 16MB of L3 cache, as well as a nominal TDP of 125W.
Additionally, the image shows that the processor supports AVX512F and SHA instructions, which are not supported by the 10th generation of Intel Core Comet Lake chips.
