The Intel Core i7-11700K is a fundamental bet by the blue giant for its new generation of processors. But days ago we saw an early review in which its performance was lower than expected, while consumption and temperatures soared. Now, Hardwareluxx has also published its review ahead of time, with somewhat more encouraging data. Let's see if it can with AMD and its Ryzen 7 5800X.
Latest Intel Core i7-11700K preview: more hopeful, but still unable to beat the 5800X in gaming
The origin of these samples is clear: the German store Mindfactory put these i7-10700K on sale ahead of time, something that was evidently taken advantage of by media such as Anandtech, and now Hardwareluxx.
The big “red flag” of these reviews is that they have not been made with the latest microcode for Rocket Lake, so it cannot be categorically and automatically considered that the performance reflected will be that of the CPUs. That is, they are made on boards with a compatible BIOS, but we still do not have all the necessary news for their performance.
In general, the gaming performance data we see is quite a bit better than Anandtech's. Still, we see how it generally fails to beat the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X, which is currently its main direct competitor. Most of the 1080p gaming benchmarks show hardly any difference between the main processors, but hardly ever hitting the 5800X.
As we say, you may have to look at the microcode, we already know that a simple BIOS update can bring performance improvements big enough to be noticed.
After this we have the consumption and temperature tests, where without a doubt you have to be careful, taking into account that in Anandtech it was seen how massive consumptions were reached, much higher than 250W only for the processor. In this case, a Cinebench R23 test leaves a maximum consumption data of 190W for a few moments and then jumps directly to the 125W consumption established by the CPU TDP. A TDP, by the way, quite high. Temperatures are kept cool (60-70ºC) at all times.
The big question here is that Cinebench R23 is an application that does not use AVX, so it is not the most severe method to do some consumer tests, unlike Anandtech that even tested with AVX-512. So we must take this as a sign of hope, that the consumption in applications not so heavy will adjust to the values of the TDP.
In my opinion, such results would leave a generation quite bitter, considering the disadvantages with which Intel comes to the market:
- Continuation of its 14nm process, with a 10nm "port" of the designs that causes an increase in consumption and temperatures.
- Very strong competition from an AMD that is increasingly consolidated in the market.
- Little durability of the generation, since in a year or less Alder Lake should come out, already with 10nm, DDR5 and a new socket. Although AMD suffers from the same.
Probably starting a price war would put these CPUs in the best place, unless microcode updates bring substantial performance improvements.
We are waiting to know more details about these processors and especially for the first “real” reviews with the updated microcodes to be released. Do not forget to leave your opinion in the comments, because without a doubt this topic is something to talk about.
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