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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday January 14 2021, @03:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the I-see-what-you-did-there dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by jasassin on Friday January 15 2021, @12:32AM (1 child)

    by jasassin (3566) <jasassin@gmail.com> on Friday January 15 2021, @12:32AM (#1100277) Homepage Journal

    Noticed their Geforce Experience wanted me to sign-in to use it. Said screw that

     

    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

    by Freeman (732) on Friday January 15 2021, @03:55PM (#1100582) Journal

    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.

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