#When AMD launched its #Ryzen 5000 processors, it shook the CPU market to the core by toppling #Intel when it came to single-core – and thus gaming – performance. #However, another leak has surfaced that suggests that #Intel could be reclaiming the gaming performance crown.
A CPU-Z benchmark result for the #Intel #Core i9-11900K has appeared on bililbili, and spotted by HXL on #Twitter. #It shows #Intel’s 11th-gen flagship with a single-core score of 695 and a multi-thread score of 6,522.
🚀11900K🤪https://t.co/T9od2II5UO pic.twitter.com/zOvajAS96j#December 31, 2020
The CPU-Z benchmark isn’t in our suite of benchmark tests, but according to the folks over at #Wccftech, this single-thread score is approximately 5-7% faster than the AMD #Ryzen 7 5800X. #If this leak is accurate, #Intel could very well reclaim its crown of “the best processor for gaming”.
#When it comes to multi-core performance, however, it would still be just on par with the AMD #Ryzen 7 5800X, thanks to its 8-core design, which means it would lose significant ground to both the AMD #Ryzen 9 5900X and #Ryzen 9 5950X, which means it wouldn’t really appeal to content creators, which are becoming more and more common as powerful hardware becomes more affordable over time.
#Either way, we won’t know anything definitive about #Intel #Rocket #Lake performance until #Intel is ready to share more details about its upcoming processors. #Hopefully we’ll hear something about it at CES 2021.
#Intel is doubling down
#Ever since AMD started giving #Intel more competition, #Team #Blue has consistently claimed that clock speed is king, as it’s the most important thing when it comes to straight gaming performance. #And, for the most part that’s absolutely true.
#However, one of the best things about PC gaming in general is the ability to use your gaming rig to do whatever you need to do. #Whether you’re a professional video editor or if you’re just trying to edit together a #Call of #Duty montage, having the extra multi-threaded horsepower is useful.
#We don’t know how these upcoming processors are going to perform, even assuming all of these leaked benchmarks are accurate – which is a pretty big assumption. #How #Rocket #Lake will perform both in games and in creative applications is going to be what makes or breaks the upcoming generation.
#Right now, all the rumors, including this one, are pointing to an 11th-generation #Core i9 with 8 cores and 16 threads, rather than the 10 cores and 20 threads of the #Core i9-10900K. #If nothing else, this upcoming processor generation may serve as an interesting case-study on what is actually more important for games – single or multi-threaded performance. #And, with both the PS5 and #Xbox #Series X both having 8 core, 16 thread processors as the baseline for next-gen gaming, the answer might not be as simple as it’s been in the past.
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