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Intel Core i9-11900KF 3.5GHz (Rocket Lake) Socket LGA1200 Processor - Retail
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I'm going by the engineering sample benchmarks that say best single threaded performance (most important for gaming) with decent overall performance and the claimed storage performance. Of course we wont know for sure until prod versions get benchmarked but based on what we know so far this is the case.
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I don't care what label it has on it. I just care about fps in FPS games and then Nvme load speed. I ordered a Z590 Motherboard too so could have gone AMD but balance of probability this is going to be faster for my use case.
Well unless the engineering samples are non representative then hopefully not. We shall see.
Not sure what you mean because Z590 has 4 lanes dedicated to Nvme unless I misunderstood the Asus specs that said I can run 16+4 and the benchmark is using a GPU as per Intel Shows Its Rocket Lake Core i9-11900K Flagship CPU Is 11% Faster Than AMD Ryzen 9 5950X In PCIe Gen 4 Benchmark (wccftech.com)? Anyway it's secondary to fps for me.
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Nope - link to that?
And anyway Nvme is directly from the CPU in Rocket Lake / Z590:
https://cdn.videocardz.com/1/2020/03/Intel-Rocket-Lake-S-VideoCardz.jpg
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Must be Daves Altdidn’t test using the M.2 slots, he used a x16 slot with a riser card to make sure it was CPU attached
8 cores for £500+ bargain
8 of the fastest cores I can buy though for £508.69 delivered. I'm not worried about total compute power. Just gaming. And fewer faster cores is almost always better than more slower ones for that assuming enough overall processing power.
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I would guess that they were not certain which motherboard Nvme slots were CPU driven and which were chipset driven. As a board with say 4 slots will commonly have 2 from CPU and 2 from Z590.
If both are CPU direct I cant see why a GPU riser would give any gain as Nvme gen 4 cards are limited to 4 lanes anyway?
Faster for most gaming going by current single core performance benchmarks - not guessing - I could be being lied to, but seems unlikely as there are several leaked benchmarks now. And when it no longer is fastest then that's what eBay is for.
Don't disagree but its likely fastest for my gaming uses right now until the next AMD or Intel CPU launch without worrying about relative value or lifetime.
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I've not seen any leaked benchmarks for the 11900K(F), all I've seen are Intel's own slides which are about as trustworthy as D. Trump. I don't see the point in pre-ordering something when there will be no stock shortage, you are just going to pay the highest amount and the least amount of verifiable information. It's your cash though, feel free to burn it how you like, and what ever you have left I am sure the CPU will burn the rest.
See for instance: Intel Core i9-11900K CPU-Z Benchmark Score Leaks | TechPowerUp
Who says there won't be a shortage? Took a while to get a Comet Lake i9. I still have consumer rights to return it for a period or cancel my pre-order if new information comes to light.
Single threaded performance is largely representative of that though for fps. Fewer faster cores in general > more slower cores as very few games scale linearly across many threads and there is an overhead of context switching. This isn't exactly new news.
I'm not worried about the power bill. And unless we are being lied to including leaked benchmarks then this beats anything from AMD in single core performance.
It was an Asus Rog Xtreme XIII unreleased motherboard not an Intel one, so yes it's quite conceivable that they were not sure.
I am using an AIO watercooler for the CPU so really not an issue for me.
We shall see in about 2 weeks. I can see there are a lot of butthurt AMD owners here worried they might not have the fastest gaming hardware anymore, and having to resort to claims that Intel are lying and benchmarks are fake to be able to back that up.
Well it ran an all core overclocked Core I9 10900KN at circa 65 degrees C under load so I'm pretty confident.
In what way do you think a ~ 20% faster IPC CPU with over 200% of the PCI-E bandwidth is going to be inferior for gaming?
If I cared that much about cost / performance I would get another Xbox Series X. Economy isn't the aim here. I will no doubt eventually eBay it to upgrade again it just like my current setup so will get a chunk back too.
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And they have upped the cache to compensate. The difference is peanuts and still changing subject to microcode changes as the article mentions:
https://images.anandtech.com/doci/16535/New Structural Latency_575px.png
And I run 1080p - 4K depending on frame rate target vs detail trade off for the game in question. I have a 240fps monitor and a 144fps monitor atm. And a QLED Neo on order for large screen / mostly Xbox / proper HDR1000+
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I don't do that on my PC either. And the evidence we have right now is that Rocket Lake has significantly faster single threaded performance than anything else.
I'm buying the version without any GPU. And based on the per thread performance benchmarks we have seen so far Rocket Lake should be fastest for more games than any other option right now:
https://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-content...gship-Desktop-CPU-Passmark-Performance-_1.png
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