An MSI Japan marketing slide has made its way online detailing Intel’s yet-to-be-released Rocket Lake-S 11th-gen desktop CPUs. The slides feature the enthusiast-oriented SKUs including the Core i9-11900K, the Core i7-11700K and the Core i5-11600K. We already know a few things about these CPUs including that Intel is topping out at 8-cores for the top-end Core i9 as well as the they will be fabbed on 14nm but will be built using a new architecture.
What we don’t know are the launch specs including clocks and will the Core i7 have HyperThreading or not. The slide clarifies a few things for the SKUs listed. We now have have an idea how Intel will arrange their stack as the Core i9-11900K features a baseclock of 3.5Ghz and has a Turbo Boost frequency 2.0 of 5.1Ghz and, Turbo Boost 3.0 of 5.2. Thermal Velocity Boost is still present and the Core i9-11900K will be at 5.3Ghz with an all-core boost target of 4.8Ghz.
The Core i7-11700K loses Thermal Velocity Boost and features a 3.6Ghz base clock, with a 4.9Ghz Turbo Boost 2.0 frequency and a Turbo Boost 3.0 of 5Ghz. Last up is is the Core i5-11600K which does not have Turbo Boost Max 3.0 and Thermal Velocity Boost. The Core i5-11600K will have a 3.9Ghz base clock and Turbo Boost 2.0 of 4.9Ghz.
Many assumed that HyperThreading would be disabled as the Core i9 and Core i7 share the same core count but what this slide suggest is that both SKU will be nearly identical with only clock speed difference separating them. Even L3 cache configuration is the same at 16MB for both Core i9 and Core i7. The Core i5 will have an L3 cache of 12MB. All three SKUs have a 125W rated TDP.
The leaked slides also confirms Intel will now have a DDR4-3200 native memory speed support. The 11th-gen CPUs from Intel are compatible with current Intel 400 series boards as well as Intel 500 series motherboards.
