https://wccftech.com/intel-rocket-lake-core-i9-11900k-cpu-gaming-benchmarks-ces-2021/

Intel has just teased its Rocket Lake S CPU at CES 2021 and the company shared some gaming benchmark sessions with us to put some steam into the hype train. Rocket Lake will be the company's first PCIe 4.0 mainstream platform and will represent a major step up from the countless iterations of Skylake. According to our sources, the platform is expected to launch in March 2021 but before that, we have some gaming performance to share.

As you can see, Intel's Rocket Lake CPU, the Core i9-11900k officially, is an absolute beast. It is itself an 8-core affair but not only does it go toe to toe with AMD's latest generation Ryzen 5900X 12-core processor in gaming performance - but it actually beats it by a small margin. As with any first-party benchmarks, we would urge a grain of salt till independent testing is out but what is happening here isn't surprising. Gaming is highly clock rate dependant in terms of performance and Intel's 14nm is an extremely mature platform that can clock up to 5.3 GHz (an absolutely ridiculous clock for a mainstream processor).