Enlarge / Our take a look at rig is a bit more unlovely than normal, attributable to Asus’ resolution to entomb the CPU socket in surrounding high-rise heatsinks, with the system’s RAM closing in simply as tightly from the underside. (Be aware the empty pair of DIMM slots.) (credit score: Jim Salter)
At this time marks the beginning of retail availability for Intel’s 2021 gaming CPU lineup, codenamed Rocket Lake-S. Rocket Lake-S remains to be caught on Intel’s venerable 14 nm course of—we have lengthy since misplaced rely of what number of pluses to tack onto the top—with options backported from newer 10 nm designs.
Clock velocity on Rocket Lake-S stays excessive, however thread counts have decreased on the excessive finish. Total, most benchmarks present Rocket Lake-S underperforming final yr’s Comet Lake—not to mention its actual competitors, coming from AMD Ryzen CPUs.
Our hands-on take a look at outcomes didn’t appear to match up with Intel’s advertising claims of as much as 19 p.c gen-on-gen IPC (Directions Per Clock cycle) enchancment over its 10th-generation elements.
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