Intel 11th-generation Rocket Lake-S gaming CPUs did not impress us

Intel 11th-generation Rocket Lake-S gaming CPUs did not impress us

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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/intel-11th-generation-rocket-lake-s-gaming-cpus-did-not-impress-us/

Today marks the start of retail availability for Intel's 2021 gaming CPU lineup, codenamed Rocket Lake-S. Rocket Lake-S is still stuck on Intel's venerable 14 nm process—we've long since lost count of how many pluses to tack onto the end—with features backported from newer 10 nm designs.

Clock speed on Rocket Lake-S remains high, but thread counts have decreased on the high end. Overall, most benchmarks show Rocket Lake-S underperforming last year's Comet Lake—let alone its real competition, coming from AMD Ryzen CPUs.