Intel Core i9-11900K, Core i7-11700K Rocket Lake-S CPUs Dominate In Single-Threaded Benchmark Leak
While last week's benchmark showed the Core i9-11900K strutting its stuff in Geekbench 5.0, these latest performance figures are from PassMark. Not surprisingly, the single-threaded benchmarks are quite impressive, even beating the mighty AMD Ryzen 9 5900X. If you recall, AMD touted IPC gains of its own – approaching 20 percent -- moving from Ryzen 3000 (Zen 2) to Ryzen 5000 (Zen 3), and Intel says that Rocket Lake-S is good for a 19 percent IPC lift over Comet Lake-S.
Here's how things shakeout with the alleged PassMark scores:
Credit: PassMark
- Intel Core i9-11900K - 3764
- Intel Core i7-11700K - 3548
- AMD Ryzen 7 5800X - 3511
- AMD Ryzen 9 5900X - 3500
- AMD Ryzen 9 5950X - 3493
- AMD Ryzen 5 5600X - 3386
- Intel Core i9-10900K - 3173
- Intel Core i7-10700K - 3083
Even the Core i7-11700K is putting up an impressive showing here with a score of 3548. The Core i9-11900K is an 8-core/16-thread processor with a base clock of 3.5GHz and a turbo clock of 5.3GHz. The Core i7-11700K, on the other hand, is an 8-core/16-thread processor with a 3.4GHz base clock and a single-core turbo clock of 5GHz.
Even with all of AMD's architectural improvements which addressed Zen 2's inherent single-threaded deficiencies compared to Intel's Core processors, it looks as though Intel is about to retake the crown -- at least with respect to single-threaded applications. That means that Intel will be able to crow loudly about its performance advantages in games, which has always been a strong point.
AMD will still have the upper hand in multi-threaded benchmarks, which has always been the case with its Zen architecture. This will be further magnified since Intel's Comet Lake-S processors topped out in 10-core/20-thread configurations, while the Rocket Lake-S flagship tops out with "just" an 8-core/16-thread configuration. AMD, in comparison, has both the 12-core/24-thread Ryzen 9 3900X and the 16-core/32-thread Ryzen 9 3950X to dominate in multi-threaded applications.
