INTEL I9-11900K: IN PURSUIT OF MAXIMUM GAMING PERFORMANCE
Intel showed at CES many of the technologies that we will see in the coming months. It starts from the new RealSense ID facial recognition system up to Tiger Lake-H processors , designed for notebooks. The news, however, was not lacking even in the desktop field, since the American house showed the first data relating to its next top-of-the-range processor, the i9-11900K , the most powerful eleventh generation CPU, arriving within the first quarter. of 2021.
Based on Cypress Cove architecture , it brings with it
several new features, starting with completely new integrated graphics, based
on Xe architecture, which should bring performance to significantly higher
levels than in the past in this area.
Fewer cores, more IPCs
Intel said at the event that the i9-11900K will be the best
gaming processor you can buy. A strong statement, especially in light of the
excellent results achieved by AMD in 2020 with its Ryzen 5900X that we reviewed
, used for comparison during the presentation. The Cypress Cove architecture
will have to contend not only with this model but also with a particularly
successful generation of AMD processors. Intel says the gain, in terms of IPC,
should be 19% compared to the past, just enough to outperform AMD and deliver
2% to 8% better performance than the 5900X in Full HD gaming, as shown by
popular benchmarks. during the event.
On a technical level,the i9-11900K is made at 14 nanometers
and uses 8 Cores and 16 Threads, two cores less than the current i9-10900K.
According to Intel, the increase in IPC should close the performance gap with
the predecessor with multi-core applications, since the clock will also remain
the same, with the possibility of going up to 5.3 GHz on a single core and
reaching 4.8 GHz on all. the calculation units. Intel therefore renews its
vision of optimizing real workloads, where software, especially games, does not
make the most of processors with a high number of cores. To discover the
integrated GPU based on Xe architecture , which offers 50% more power than that
used previously and fully supports the encoding of the AV1 video standard.
This element is also important in the presence of a
dedicated video card, for example during gaming and simultaneous streaming the
discrete GPU is freed from the video encoding tasks, which are performed by the
integrated one. The TDP is 125W (PL1), but it goes up to 250W (PL2), with the
ability to use full power for 56 seconds.
The new architecture supports 3200 MHz RAM memories without
overclocking (previously it reached 2933 MHz) and provides 20 PCIe 4.0 lanes,
in this way even Intel is now able to support the latest connection standard,
which has long since arrived at AMD. Compatibility is expected with Z490
motherboards, many of which will be able to enable PCIe 4.0 through software
updates, but the new Z590s will also arrive, with many models already presented
in these days.