10-30-2020, 01:57 PM
Intel's 11th-Generation Rocket Lake CPUs Are Following In AMD's Footsteps
<p>AMD is just over a week away from launching its highly anticipated <a href="https://www.gamespot.com/articles/amd-reveals-ryzen-5000-series-the-worlds-best-gaming-cpu/1100-6483084/">Ryzen 5000 series of CPUs</a>, but its closest competitor Intel still has a few months to go before it releases its own new generation of CPUs, dubbed Rocket Lake-S.</p><p>Announced earlier this year, <a href="https://www.gamespot.com/articles/intel-reveals-11th-generation-rocket-lake-cpus-out-in-2021/1100-6483033/">Rocket Lake</a> is presumably another generation of processors built on Intel's 14nm process, which it has clung to for multiple years. That means core counts on Rocket Lake aren't changing drastically, with a maximum of 8 cores and 16 threads. But like AMD, Intel is hoping that optimizations to instructions-per-cycle (IPC) is how it will achieve more performance with the same high clock speeds the company has touted over its competitor.</p><p>Intel is still the best choice for pure gaming performance thanks to its slight lead in single-core performance, and with Rocket Lake, an improvement to IPC might widen the gap. While Intel isn't ready to get specific with numbers, it does say that it expects double-digit percentage improvements when it comes to IPC, allowing for higher framerates in CPU-limited scenarios and less latency in.</p><a href="https://www.gamespot.com/articles/intels-11th-generation-rocket-lake-cpus-are-following-in-amds-footsteps/1100-6483933/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f/">Continue Reading at GameSpot</a>
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<p>AMD is just over a week away from launching its highly anticipated <a href="https://www.gamespot.com/articles/amd-reveals-ryzen-5000-series-the-worlds-best-gaming-cpu/1100-6483084/">Ryzen 5000 series of CPUs</a>, but its closest competitor Intel still has a few months to go before it releases its own new generation of CPUs, dubbed Rocket Lake-S.</p><p>Announced earlier this year, <a href="https://www.gamespot.com/articles/intel-reveals-11th-generation-rocket-lake-cpus-out-in-2021/1100-6483033/">Rocket Lake</a> is presumably another generation of processors built on Intel's 14nm process, which it has clung to for multiple years. That means core counts on Rocket Lake aren't changing drastically, with a maximum of 8 cores and 16 threads. But like AMD, Intel is hoping that optimizations to instructions-per-cycle (IPC) is how it will achieve more performance with the same high clock speeds the company has touted over its competitor.</p><p>Intel is still the best choice for pure gaming performance thanks to its slight lead in single-core performance, and with Rocket Lake, an improvement to IPC might widen the gap. While Intel isn't ready to get specific with numbers, it does say that it expects double-digit percentage improvements when it comes to IPC, allowing for higher framerates in CPU-limited scenarios and less latency in.</p><a href="https://www.gamespot.com/articles/intels-11th-generation-rocket-lake-cpus-are-following-in-amds-footsteps/1100-6483933/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f/">Continue Reading at GameSpot</a>
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/intels...01-10abi2f