According to Geekbench, the base frequency of the Core i9-11900T is 1.5GHz. In Turbo mode, it can go up to 4.9 GHz. This is almost 400 MHz (taking into account Thermal Velocity Boost) lower than that of the flagship Core i9-11900K of the same Rocket Lake-S series. The latter has a TDP value that is three and a half times higher than that of its energy-efficient version. The declared nominal power consumption of the Core i7-11700 model, in turn, is 65 W. Both processors noted in the test have 8 cores and 16 virtual threads.

The chips were tested on the ASUS ROG Maximus XIII Hero motherboard based on the Intel Z590 system logic set. In a single-threaded Geekbench test, the Core i9-11900T scored 1,717 points, which is higher than all Ryzen 5000 series processors presented in the same test. However, the 16-thread energy-efficient model was not a competitor for 24- and 32-thread solutions based on Zen 3 in multi-threaded tasks with only 8349 points.

The Core i7-11700 model, in turn, in a single-threaded test, was on the same performance level with the Core i9-11900T and at the same time 13% faster in a multi-thread. Curiously, the overclocked version of the Core i7-11700K turned out to be the same 13% more quickly in the multi-threaded test than the regular version, and at the same time, 5% faster in the single-thread.

It is also noteworthy that all four-core models of Rocket Lake-S processors surpassed the Zen 3 architect’s AMD chips in single-threaded performance. Still, only the K versions of the presented processors could catch up or surpass the eight-core Ryzen 7 5800X in multi-threading.