Rocket Lake i7-11700 helps Intel secure the single-core performance crown for now as it crushes the i7-10700K and overtakes the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X at 4.88 GHz on Geekbench

[Redaktion]

An Intel Core i7-11700 has passed through Geekbench testing with flying colors, hitting 4.8 GHz and recording an incredible single-core performance score that easily surpasses the i7-10700K and just squeezes past the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X. A separate benchmark revealed the capabilities of the i7-11700's UHD Graphics 750 iGPU.

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[LyntonB]

at hundreds of watts. free heater for the winter in your room!

[robin7]

Rocket Lake would make an impressive gaming pc. If they have good supply it will be an affordable one too.

[Cobalt48]

What software application or game does Intel or anyone else imagine that having the highest single core score will make a difference in, in the real world? AMD kills Intel in every multicore test, and this does make a difference in the real word. Beyond being a pretty number, single core scores are pointless and meaningless.

[Mikita]

What an astonishing win of 3%!! This is even lower than error delta when I bench my CPU! Come on, journalists!

At the same time, 20+% at multicore is hard to neglect.

[wildcard]

So this was at 4.88GHz 1T boost?

My estimated 4.7 GHz 1T boost = around 1655 points, or slightly slower than the Ryzen 5800X.

[wildcard]

Sorry I forgot to state the 4.7GHz is the stated 1T boost speed for the 5800X.

All in all, what actual practial advantage does this have over the competition? I can't see any. Gaming, some might say? Many games these days are highly-threaded, and if you're running at 4K you're much more at risk of the GPU bottlenecking the entire system.

So what am I actually gaining with this Intel part over the AMD one, and is that gain anything more than synthetic?

[Abc]

God for old singls core games, for exsample Wicher 1

[Bhavey]

at hundreds of watts. free heater for the winter in your room!

The solution to global cooling.

[wildcard]

God for old singls core games, for exsample Wicher 1

But surely so are AMD Ryzen and previous-gen Intel? Would the i7-11700 afford a noticeable and worthwhile difference in this title?

[PJ]

 If you  use your computer for large Excel Spreadsheets a computer with more cores and a faster clock speed is better. It will be easier for the computer to recalculate formulas.

[Spunjji]

A "win" within error margins for single-core and a substantial loss in multi-core against a CPU with the same number of cores and probably ~1/2 the power draw under heavy loud.

o u c h

[Grinnie Jax]

God for old singls core games, for exsample Wicher 1

If you  use your computer for large Excel Spreadsheets a computer with more cores and a faster clock speed is better. It will be easier for the computer to recalculate formulas.

Guys, wake up. Are you seriously talking about 3% at the single core? This is less than a typical error margin when you bench your CPU. You can run the test two times in a row and get a 4% "advantage" one time.

But at the same time, +20% multi-core can't be neglected.