The Intel Rocket Lake 11-generation desktop Core is getting closer and closer, and the official has already confirmed that it will be released in March next year. The architecture and technical features have been announced, but the specific models and specifications are missing.
In the past two days, a sample of Rocket Lake with 8 cores and 16 threads has appeared frequently, which can be seen in the databases of GeekBench and Ashes of the Singularity.
Now, a motherboard manufacturer accidentally posted a screenshot of Rocket Lake CPU-Z in the press release! Although it was quickly removed, the "criminal evidence" was retained.
CPU-Z identification shows that this Rocket Lake processor is still an engineering sample, and no specific model was recognized, but the specifications are basically available: 14nm process, LGA1200 package interface, 8 cores and 16 threads, base frequency 3.4GHz, maximum acceleration 5.0GHz (Frequency multiplier 8-50x), secondary cache 4MB, tertiary cache 16MB, thermal design power consumption 125W.
All this is similar to the rumors. Compared with the previous two exposure samples, the acceleration frequency is the same, but the reference frequency is sometimes 3.4GHz and sometimes 3.5GHz.
Interestingly, CPU-Z also recognized that Rocket Lake has added a new instruction set, one is AVX-512F and the other is SHA. This is not supported by the existing 10th generation Core.
In addition, the motherboard is Z490, which confirms that the new generation is compatible with the old motherboard, at least compatible with the high-end Z490, and it is hard to say that the low-end H470, B460, and H410 are compatible.
If nothing unexpected, this should be the flagship model i9-11900K of the Rocket Lake series, but the current i9-10900K is still 10 cores and 20 threads, the new generation has returned to 8 cores and 16 threads, and at least the frequency of the samples is lower than i7 -10700K, a bit unreasonable.
I only hope that the frequency of the final retail version can be increased. After all, there have been rumors that Rocket Lake will sprint to accelerate 5.5GHz...
