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Intel Rocket Lake Desktop CPUs Will Launch in March, Gigabyte Confirms - ExtremeTech:
Gigabyte has confirmed that Intel will launch its Rocket Lake CPU refresh in March, as part of an announcement touting its own PCIe 4.0 support. Gigabyte announced today that if you own a Z490 motherboard, you'll be getting a UEFI update to support Rocket Lake CPUs with full PCIe 4.0 support.
The rest of the PR goes into detail on how Gigabyte engineered their motherboards to handle the higher heat output of PCIe 4.0, and the fact that addressable BAR support is coming to the company's motherboards as well. Addressable BAR is the same feature AMD debuted as Smart Access Memory earlier this year.
The March 2021 date confirms what we've heard previously — late March is more likely than early March. It's going to be genuinely interesting to see how Cypress Cove performs against AMD's Zen 3. Generally speaking, based on leaked benchmarks and early data, we're looking at impressive gains for Intel in single-thread performance. Multi-thread performance estimates for the Core i9-11900K have varied. In some cases, the 11900K is almost a match for the 10-core Core i9-10900K. In a few leaked results, it's actually been faster on eight cores than Comet Lake was on 10.
Are any of my fellow Soylentils doing PC builds right now, and if so what are you building? Let us know in the comments!
takyon writes: Intel announced more details about Rocket Lake at CES 2021. While dropping the top core count from 10 to 8, Intel estimates a 19% IPC increase for Rocket Lake-S. It also adds AVX-512 and "Deep Learning Boost" support. The integrated graphics should be about 50% faster, and can be used for stream encoding while discrete graphics is being used for gaming. AV1 video decode is supported. New Z590, B560, and H510 motherboards will support both Rocket Lake and Comet Lake. Intel's comparison of the 8-core i9-11900K to AMD's 12-core Ryzen 9 5900X shows the former performing 2-8% faster at several games at 1080p.
Also at Tom's Hardware and Wccftech.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday January 14 2021, @05:15PM (3 children)
Hi hopped on the AMD Ryzen 5 3600 bandwagon when it was still being sold for $179.99 on Newegg. Now it's $20 more expensive and is supposedly on sale at that price point as well.
Right now, I'm waiting for my ASUS Motherboard to be repaired and returned to me. At first I thought the GPU was shot, so I swapped it to an old one. Then, I decided to try and swap it to a different GPU and MB wouldn't boot. Kept showing VGA light on, no matter what I did.
Case: Fractal Design, ATX Mid Tower, pretty solid case.
PSU: Seasonic 750W 80+ Platinum
Case Fans: Fractal Design Fans, Quiet, not flashy, but look good.
Motherboard: ASUS TUF Gaming x570 Wifi Plus
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600
RAM: G-Skill 2x16GB 3600Mhz
NVMe SSD: Silicon Power 1TB, Max Read up to 2200 Mbps, Max Write up to 1600 Mbps, MTBF 2,000,000 hours.
GPU: (Got a GTX 1650 as a stop-gap between now and whenever I can get a new AMD GPU. Noticed their Geforce Experience wanted me to sign-in to use it. Said screw that and stole my old RX480 back from my wife's computer. Then it appeared to die, but didn't actually. Was Motherboard problems. So, now the whole computer is on the floor and the RX480 is back in the Wife's computer, because it's still functional. Am making due with an old Quad-Core (I believe an AMD Phenom x2 640) computer with 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD, and that GTX1650. Was using a Radeon HD 6670 https://www.newegg.com/sapphire-radeon-hd-6670-100326ul/p/N82E16814102950 [newegg.com], but swapped it for the GTX to see, if it would help the game I was playing. Then installed NZXT CAM to see what my problem actually was. The main slowdown for me was likely the CPU, not the GPU as I'm hitting 100% CPU load, with only 25% GPU load. Game I was testing is Avorion.)
OS: Windows 10 Professional
https://www.newegg.com/black-fractal-design-focus-g-atx-mid-tower/p/N82E16811352069 [newegg.com]
https://www.newegg.com/seasonic-focus-plus-750-platinum-ssr-750px-750w/p/N82E16817151191 [newegg.com]
https://www.newegg.com/fractal-design-fd-fan-ssr3-140-wt-case-fan/p/N82E16835352016 [newegg.com]
https://www.newegg.com/asus-tuf-gaming-x570-plus/p/N82E16813119197 [newegg.com]
https://www.newegg.com/amd-ryzen-5-3600/p/N82E16819113569 [newegg.com]
https://www.newegg.com/g-skill-32gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/N82E16820232867 [newegg.com]
https://www.newegg.com/silicon-power-p34a60-1tb/p/N82E16820301428 [newegg.com]
https://www.newegg.com/gigabyte-geforce-gtx-1650-gv-n1650oc-4gd/p/N82E16814932150 [newegg.com] (Was $159.99 when I got it. Now it's $400+.)
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday January 14 2021, @05:37PM
My reasoning was that I could hopefully upgrade to a 5XXX CPU sometime in 2021 and upgrade my wife's 1700 to the 3600, since the 3600 is slightly better overall. Also, wanted to upgrade to 5XXX or 6XXX GPU, but there's not been a good time for me to get one. Mostly due to Bitcoin Miners and/or Scalpers and/or high gamer demand.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 4, Insightful) by jasassin on Friday January 15 2021, @12:32AM (1 child)
I got a 1650 Super and that login bullshit to use the GeForce Experience software really irked me. I wonder what the reasoning behind that is? More data mining after I buy your hardware NVIDIA? Fuck you!
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Freeman on Friday January 15 2021, @03:55PM
It has to be exactly that. AMD doesn't require a user login to fully use the expensive hardware you just purchased.
Even NZXT CAM which I've found to be a useful tool for monitoring in-game CPU/GPU/RAM usage and temperatures doesn't require a login. They have a "continue as guest" option. I don't use it all the time, but it's useful to see what's holding you back or to make sure your GPU/CPU temps are within normal ranges.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"