Rocket Lake Review: A waste of sand...

Grim5 · 23 Mar 2021 at 05:46

Apart from stock benchmarks, for overclocking: "we had real trouble getting this thing to overclock to any level that was meaningful for performance before we ran into voltage issues and temperature throttling"

Raiden85 · 23 Mar 2021 at 06:05

Terrible generation, even the single and multi-core power consumption is ridiculous, and this is stock :eek:

Single Core

Multi

Perfect_Chaos · 23 Mar 2021 at 06:42

Where's Dave2150 to spin this into a good thing?

Not sure why Intel bothered releasing this, they should have just brought Alder Lake forward if at all possible, instead.

kitfit1 · 23 Mar 2021 at 07:46

Perfect_Chaos said:
Where's Dave2150 to spin this into a good thing?

Not sure why Intel bothered releasing this, they should have just brought Alder Lake forward if at all possible, instead.

You would find it hard to spin anything when it's got a seized bearing

deuse · 23 Mar 2021 at 07:48

People still play in 1080p?

I would have liked to see UHD gaming scores.

d_brennen · 23 Mar 2021 at 07:51

Perfect_Chaos said:
Where's Dave2150 to spin this into a good thing?

Not sure why Intel bothered releasing this, they should have just brought Alder Lake forward if at all possible, instead.

Intel don't pay extra for the morning shift, so he'll be here at 9 or so

robfosters · 23 Mar 2021 at 08:08

deuse said:
People still play in 1080p?

I would have liked to see UHD gaming scores.

No point, it’s too GPU bound at 4K.it would be a few tiny frames each way.

Journey · 23 Mar 2021 at 08:15

But... but... but.. the 11900K is gonna be amazing, so much better than the 11700K.

deuse · 23 Mar 2021 at 08:18

robfosters said:
No point, it’s too GPU bound at 4K.it would be a few tiny frames each way.

So with my 3090 I won't need to update my cpu for years to come

robfosters · 23 Mar 2021 at 08:19

deuse said:
So with my 3090 I won't need to update my cpu for years to come

If it’s 1-2 years old, you’ll get at least 5-6 years out of it gaming at 4K imo.

I got 8 good years out of a 2500K

Naff8000 · 23 Mar 2021 at 08:22

Waste of sand

aka Intel

kitfit1 · 23 Mar 2021 at 08:28

Journey said:
But... but... but.. the 11900K is gonna be amazing, so much better than the 11700K.

Nahhhhhhhh, it just uses more sand.

tommoT.Striker · 23 Mar 2021 at 08:39

Some people aren't going to react very well to this news!

deuse · 23 Mar 2021 at 08:41

robfosters said:
If it’s 1-2 years old, you’ll get at least 5-6 years out of it gaming at 4K imo.

I got 8 good years out of a 2500K

9700K @5.2

I can put the saved money towards a 4090

Purgatory · 23 Mar 2021 at 08:44

tommoT.Striker said:
Some people aren't going to react very well to this news!

I gave him a heads up in this thread after his silly comments above mine :- https://www.overclockers.co.uk/forums/posts/34655519/

silvagti · 23 Mar 2021 at 08:44

Perfect_Chaos said:
Not sure why Intel bothered releasing this, they should have just brought Alder Lake forward if at all possible, instead.

It's looking pretty meh in terms of performance and the thermals are terrible. I agree, makes you wonder why they even released it when the improvements are so mediocre.

Hotwired · 23 Mar 2021 at 09:13

silvagti said:
It's looking pretty meh in terms of performance and the thermals are terrible. I agree, makes you wonder why they even released it when the improvements are so mediocre.

Appearances sake.

You might know it's not worth anything over the last one but there's plenty of people who see bigger newer number and that means more better obviously.

robfosters · 23 Mar 2021 at 09:56

deuse said:
9700K @5.2

I can put the saved money towards a 4090

100%. That CPU will game excellently for the very minimum of another 5 years imo.

As long as your GPU utilisation is around 97-100%, and CPU utilisation is lower, then that’s a pretty good sign problem is your GPU. There are anomalies though. CP2077 for example has very high CPU usage for some, but it’s still the card that is really dictating performance.

deuse · 23 Mar 2021 at 10:03

robfosters said:
100%. That CPU will game excellently for the very minimum of another 5 years imo.

As long as your GPU utilisation is around 97-100%, and CPU utilisation is lower, then that’s a pretty good sign problem is your GPU. There are anomalies though. CP2077 for example has very high CPU usage for some, but it’s still the card that is really dictating performance.

Thanks for the advice