According to Intel’s official information, the future flagship of the Rocket Lake-S family is equipped with eight cores and sixteen virtual threads. 11th Gen Intel Core processors use the new Cypress Cove core architecture. Against the background of the older model Comet Lake-S, Intel’s new flagship has lost 2 physical and four virtual cores. But in return, the new product will be able to offer a noticeable increase in the IPC indicator (the number of instructions executed per clock cycle), which compensates for the performance difference in multi-threaded tasks and, we hope, will offer an even higher level of single-core performance.

The Intel Core i9-11900K was tested in the Ashes of the Singularity gaming test with “Crazy” graphics settings at 1920 x 1080 and 2560 x 1440 pixels. In the first case, the processor showed a result of 6400 points with an average frame rate of 64.7 frames per second, in the second – scored 6200 points and showed an average value of 62.7 frames per second.

One of the owners of the flagship Ryzen 9 5950X shared the performance results of the chip in the same test and pointed out that at 1080p the AMD processor achieves a result of 7100 points with an average frame / s value of 72. Thus, the Ryzen 9 5950X was 11% faster than the Core i9-11900K in this particular gaming test. It should be noted that the AMD flagship has an advantage in the form of twice as many physical and virtual cores.