AMD has over the last few years truly put Intel and NVIDIA on notice, they're not messing around and Intel are trying to create a little fanfare with a tease of fresh 11th gen desktop Rocket Lake-S CPU info.
In a fresh blog post, Intel mentioned their new 11th Gen Intel Core S-series desktop processors code-named "Rocket Lake-S" will arrive in the first quarter of 2021 (so sometime before the end of March). We don't have long until AMD launch Zen 3 with Ryzen 5000 on November 5, so Intel must be a little worried. Amongst other things, Intel are claiming a "double-digit" increase in IPC (Instructions Per Cycle/Clock) which is one of the most important parts when it comes to CPU performance.
Here's the fresh details they trickled out:
- New Cypress Cove architecture featuring Ice Lake Core architecture and Tiger Lake Graphics architecture.
- Double-digit percentage IPC performance improvement.
- Better gen-over-gen performance.
- Up to 20 CPU PCIe 4.0 lanes for more configuration flexibility.
- Enhanced Intel UHD graphics featuring Intel Xe Graphics architecture.
- Intel® Quick Sync Video, offering better video transcoding and hardware acceleration for latest codecs.
- New overclocking features for more flexible tuning performance.
- Intel® Deep Learning Boost and VNNI support.
We also know a few other details about Cypress Cove, which they linked in a presentation that shows 11th Gen Intel Core S-series desktop processors will max-out at 8 cores:
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I'm hoping I may upgrade my system around Xmas or thereabouts, after the dust has settled on AMD's stuff. My next CPU will 100% be AMD. My current i7 is the only Intel chip I've used since way back. I basically went from a full RISCOS setup (I'm not sure what the CPU was in the add-on "PC" card either) to an AMD CPU. I never bought cutting edge, I went for value for money. My next GPU I'm still undecided on.
Interesting times!
Interesting times!
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Comandante Ñoñardo Oct 30, 2020
Too little, too late.
Intel will be enjoying delicious karma humble pie for a good while...
Intel will be enjoying delicious karma humble pie for a good while...
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Quoting: AnzaQuoting: Comandante ÑoñardoI think is not the right time for a cpu upgrade...
I prefer to wait a year or two until Intel or AMD adopt the DDR5 standard
That's the problem. There never is good time to upgrade as there's always something better coming up soon...
This ^^^^
Done the waiting game before, was stuck on a 7600 GTX for years until I finally went HD5870.
The common sense in me it telling me to wait though for DDR5 but, Shiny Shiny
Having said that, DDR5 will be stupidly expensive at first!
There, I do have an excuse
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At first DDR5 will have little to no benefit over DD4 and will be more expensive to boot. It's generally a year to a year and a half after the new standard is introduced that you get tangible benefits. This happened going from DDR to DDR2, DDR2 to DDR3, DDR3 to DDR4, it's always the way.
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Last edited by Keyrock on 30 October 2020 at 7:06 pm UTC
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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoI think is not the right time for a cpu upgrade...
I prefer to wait a year or two until Intel or AMD adopt the DDR5 standard
Well, if someone have a 7 generation Intel Core or a Ryzen First Gen, then upgrading to Rocket Lake or Ryzen 5xxx is actually a really nice upgrade
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Quoting: WJMazepasQuoting: Comandante ÑoñardoI think is not the right time for a cpu upgrade...
I prefer to wait a year or two until Intel or AMD adopt the DDR5 standard
Well, if someone have a 7 generation Intel Core or a Ryzen First Gen, then upgrading to Rocket Lake or Ryzen 5xxx is actually a really nice upgrade
In what way? I am using even an even older generation and I really haven't found much reason to upgrade yet.
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Comandante Ñoñardo Oct 31, 2020
Quoting: WJMazepasQuoting: Comandante ÑoñardoI think is not the right time for a cpu upgrade...
I prefer to wait a year or two until Intel or AMD adopt the DDR5 standard
Well, if someone have a 7 generation Intel Core or a Ryzen First Gen, then upgrading to Rocket Lake or Ryzen 5xxx is actually a really nice upgrade
I have an olde i7 4790K 2X8Gb DDR3 2400CL11 in the Windows10 machine and 4690K 4x4GB DDR3 2400CL11 in this Linux machine and, while I have a bit of bottle neck when I use an RTX 2060 SUPER, I don't feel necessary to upgrade the CPU now because I play at 1080p.
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Comandante Ñoñardo Nov 2, 2020
Intel, in fact, is planning a CPU with DDR5 support for next year.
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