October 29, 20205 yr Most of the information has already been leaked several months ago, but now Intel have finally confirmed that the Rocket Lake-S CPU line-up will be based on the Cypress Cove architecture (backport of Sunny Cove/Ice Lake to 14nm). Intel are claiming "double-digit IPC improvements", the leaks suggest ~10%. As expected the line-up will have a maximum of 8 cores and 16 threads, new Xe-LP integrated graphics and PCIe 4.0 support for both the current 400 and the future 500 series motherboards. According to leaks, those CPUs will be able to hit boost clocks of up to 5.5GHz, but will of course consume more power than comparable Comet Lake CPUs. Q1 2021 is the target release window, leaks suggest March 2021 more precisely. Hopefully they will be competitive in single-threaded performance at least, it is disappointing they aren't considering manufacturing chips without a GPU so they could fit more cores in the package.
January 11, 20215 yr Author Today at CES 2021, Intel previewed the flagship SKU of the Rocket Lake-S line-up, the Core i9-11900K. Expected to launch in March 2021. Up to 8 cores and 16 threads, up to 19% IPC improvement over Comet Lake, DDR4-3200 support, and 20 PCIe 4.0 lanes. However due to being manufactured on the old 14nm node, it is expected that these CPUs will consume more power than Comet Lake, though they might be easier to cool since the die size will be large. It seems that with Rocket Lake they will be reclaiming the gaming performance crown, and they also previewed Alder Lake which will be released in H2 2021. The wonders of competition. Now we just have to hope supply will be decent. Several Z590 motherboard models were also revealed today by ASUS, Gigabyte, EVGA and Colorful, with models by MSI and Biostar leaked as well. The high-end models will be coming with beefy VRMs and up to 10-layer PCBs, and new features like 10GbE LAN and Realtek ALC4000 series codecs.
January 11, 20215 yr 11900K: 19% IPC increase claimed. Wonder how it will be priced. https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/11/22225541/intel-processor-11th-gen-ces-2021-chips-specs Edited January 11, 20215 yr by martin-w
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