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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: 2) by digitalaudiorock on Friday January 15 2021, @09:12PM (4 children)

    by digitalaudiorock (688) on Friday January 15 2021, @09:12PM (#1100823) Journal

    I actually just got done building my first new PC in longer than you'd believe...not small and cute ;). Went with a Fractal Design Meshify C case, an AMD RYZEN 7 3700X 8-Core CPU, an ASRock X570 PHANTOM GAMING 4 motherboard, 64 GB of RAM, a Radeon RX 5500 XT 8-GB GPU. I'm one of those who just can't totally warm up to the limited lifetime of SSD (even though I know they'd actually last a long time) and went with a ton of SATA disk. Installed Gentoo with everything I need compiled into the kernel (no modules). Everything about it is insanely fast (with the possible exception of the lifeform behind the keyboard :D)..I'm like a kid at Christmas. Gentoo compiles are of no consequence at all with 8 cores x 2 threads per core...builds my kernel from scratch in 1 minute 13 seconds. Loving everything about this. Sprung for a 32" LG 4K monitor to celebrate.

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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday January 19 2021, @04:43PM (3 children)

    by Freeman (732) on Tuesday January 19 2021, @04:43PM (#1102447) Journal

    I would highly recommend an SSD, but with a HDD as a Storage drive. You can generally, easily re-install programs, if necessary. For everyday activity, an SSD is super awesome. You don't trust SSD, that's just fine. Just think of it as non-volatile RAM that you use for your OS and programs. Just make sure to backup the stuff you really care about to an HDD. Things that really matter and can't just be replaced. I.E. things you have created, Photos of your kids, Artwork you've created, papers or books you may have written, Music you've created, or anything that took you a boat load of time to organize/process. Things you can replace that just don't matter at all. I.E. Your Operating System and Programs. *With a caveat, if you have specialty software that would be tricky to re-setup. It would be best to set everything up the way you need it. Make a backup, test the backup, store the backup in 2 different places, and then continue like normal.

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    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 digitalaudiorock on Wednesday January 20 2021, @03:35PM (2 children)

      by digitalaudiorock (688) on Wednesday January 20 2021, @03:35PM (#1102881) Journal

      Thanks! Yea...maybe I'll consider it at some point. But frankly everything (including disk IO) is so fast on this thing (especially compared to what I'm used to) I'm not sure I'd notice all that much difference. Hell...the BIOS/EFI part of booting the system is already several times the few seconds it takes me to boot to a graphical UI and to open the programs I frequently use. Love this thing.

      • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday January 20 2021, @04:10PM (1 child)

        by Freeman (732) on Wednesday January 20 2021, @04:10PM (#1102906) Journal

        The BIOS/UEFI part of booting the system could possibly be reduced even further, there are fast boot options in most Motherboards. Even on my several years old B350 motherboard, the motherboard initialization process is no more than a few seconds.

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        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 digitalaudiorock on Wednesday January 20 2021, @08:44PM

          by digitalaudiorock (688) on Wednesday January 20 2021, @08:44PM (#1103078) Journal

          Actually yes...this one has a fast boot for sure. I had that set for a while and it was faster, though not really all that much. The fact is however that this machine is generally up 24/7 most of the time so it's a little moot. Launching programs and other OS related stuff on this machine is literally instantaneous for me despite the spinning disks, which is the important thing.