Intel Core i9-11900K "Rocket Lake" AotS Benchmark Numbers Surface | TechPowerUp
 
An alleged Ashes of the Singularity (AotS) benchmark results page for the top 11th Gen Core "Rocket Lake" processor leaked to the web courtesy TUM_APISAK. It's official now that Intel will keep its lengthy processor model number schemes, with the top part being the Core i9-11900K, a successor to the i9-10900K. It also confirms that the "Rocket Lake" silicon caps out at 8-core/16-thread, with performance on virtue of the IPC gains from the new "Cypress Cove" CPU cores."Cypress Cove" is believed to be a back-port of "Willow Cove" to the 14 nm silicon fabrication process that "Rocket Lake-S" is built on.

The screenshot also confirms the nominal clocks (base frequency) of the i9-11900K to be 3.50 GHz, as Intel tends to put base frequency in the name-string of its processors. Paired with a GeForce RTX 3080 and 32 GB of RAM, the i9-11900K-powered machine yielded 62.7 FPS CPU frame-rate at 1440p resolution, and 64.7 FPS CPU frame-rate at 1080p (a mere 3.18% drop in frame-rates from the increase in resolution). These numbers put the i9-11900K in the same league as the Ryzen 7 5800X in CPU frame-rates tested under similar conditions.
 
In my personal opinion it looks like Intel will simply match AMD's Ryzen 7 5800X performance. It will be interesting to see if AMD cuts pricing on the Ryzen 7 5800X as a result. 
 

bobmitch
Really not impressed!  Intel is simply lost in the forest

I'd actually argue the other way. If Intel is matching performance while on an "old" 14nm node to AMD's CPUs at 7nm, I'd say the onus is on AMD to push harder. 
 
While I know "nm" is a loose term of measurement and can't be directly compared since Intel's designs tend to be more densely packed (Intel's 10nm is actually as dense or denser than TSMC's 7nm) but even so 14nm is basically 2015 tech and is less dense than TSMC's 7nm. 

 Xnm, Xnm+, Xnm++ claims are hard to understand ... everyone seems to use a different standard
 
Intel’s 10nm Node: Past, Present, and Future 
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Many of Intel’s advertised 10nm characteristics are similar to those of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s (TSMC) first generation 7nm fabrication process (N7), yet Intel originally planned to start high volume production (HVM) of its 10nm devices in 2016, about two years ahead of TSMC’s N7 HVM, which would have given Intel a strong advantage over its rivals particularly in the HPC space.
 
 
(source is link above for chart)
 

CraptacularOne
I'd actually argue the other way. If Intel is matching performance while on an "old" 14nm node to AMD's CPUs at 7nm, I'd say the onus is on AMD to push harder. 

Node has nothing to do with raw performance, just power consumption. The above benchmarks are still meaningless without knowing the cooling and if the CPU is burning a hole through the motherboard.... Remember there is a reason Intel was forced to remove 2 cores when it backported Rocket Lake from 10nm to a 14nm design. 

That's pretty impressive

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