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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 14 2021, @05:27PM (2 children)
a MB with dual nics and integrated CPU for my next build, but I've not seen anything like that out there recently. Anybody know a vendor selling new boards like that? I don't need a lot of horsepower, but I don't want to have to run a managed switch to get layer 2 separation.
Thanks!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 14 2021, @10:45PM
i'd say cloud router from mikrotik.
They have some, with fiber sockets and stuff.
I mean, if you want fiber instead of ethernet at home and somewhat more integrated experience then DIY pf or whatever firewall box.
If its not acceptable, id say any random motherboard with 8 gb ram and two pcie slots can be made into what you want.
Usually people buy cheap, passive cooled crap like these:
https://yandex.ru/images/touch/search?text=alibaba%20x86%20dual%20nic&redircnt=1610664155.1 [yandex.ru]
but majority of those are intel, and nics are also intel.
Id say stay the fuck away from intel.
Unless this is non opsec critical device to be used for stuff noone cares about, then sure why not.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 15 2021, @06:40PM
Epyc 3000?
Supermicro M11SDV-8C-LN4F AMD EPYC 3251 8-Core Embedded Mini ITX Motherboard w/ Quad GbE LAN, IPMI - Newegg [newegg.com]
AMD EPYC 3251 2.5 - 3.1 GHz 8-Core Processor
Supports up to 512GB ECC RDIMM Memory
4 x Intel GbE LAN and a Dedicated IPMI
PCI-E 3.0 x16 slot, M.2 PCI-E 3.0 x4 slot
Mini ITX Form Factor: 170 x 170mm, 6.7" x 6.7" (in inches)