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 (birds chirping) (dirt breaking) (wings flapping) (intense music) (guy laughing) - 14 nanometers! Lives! It's better, faster,stronger than ever before! Just like our sponsor. - [Narrator] Honey is thefree-to-use browser extension that helps you find some ofthe best promo codes on over 30,000 sites. Get it today at joinhoney.com/ltt (upbeat music) - Yeah, yeah nanometersaren't an accurate measure of anything, I know. But this process is old and this has huge performance implications which we'll test on the Core I9-11900K and Core I5-11600K that we have here today. To do that we've grabbedthe equivalent 10th gen core processors, along withthe Ryzen 5 5600X and Ryzen 9 5900X forcomparison with team red. Special note, we'rerunning both benches at one-to-one memory. More on that later. And we're running these tests under completely stocked turbo limits. Shadow of the Tomb Raider is the Core I9's first L. At a roughly eightpercent lower average FPS than Ryzen 9. While the Core I5 sees significantly better minimum frame rates than Ryzen 5. GTA5 has the Core I9 pulling ahead of the 5900X by five percent or more in minimum frames, while theCore I5 again pulls off a 13 percent or so leadover Ryzen 5's minimums. F1 2020's absurd frame rates really generational improvements Intel's manage here for the Core I5. The Core I9 appears roughlyin line with 10th gen thanks to fewer threadsand lower base blocks. Forza Horizon 4 has Inteltrading blows with AMD with better minimums andworse averages on both new CPU's, while turntimes in Civilization 6 are about half a second orso faster on 11th gen. Flight Sim 2020 has bothCPU's ahead of last gen, but falling short of AMD in allbut the minimum frame rates. CSGO is another bloodbath,where AMD's Zen 3 architecture firmly curb stomps rocket lake. Perhaps, thanks to the gigantic amount ofsheer cash Ryzen enjoys. Although it's worth pointing out that every CPU here is already in overkill territory. Moving on to

productivity,Intel's single threaded Cinebench scores are muchbetter than last gen and higher than AMD's, butnot by a huge amount. While PugetBench for CreativeCloud shows that even lightly threaded work loadslike Photoshop can still favor AMD, again, likelythanks to the extra cash. It's not a big L though. That comes from Blender. The Core I5 falls behind by10 percent in Gooseberry, while the Core I9, becauseof stock turbo, is a staggering 40 percent slowerthan Ryzen in the same test. Corona bench mark, beingmuch shorter, puts the Core I5 much closer to Ryzen5 and the same goes for V-Ray. A test that only lasts about a minute. POV-Ray has Intel very close to AMD in single-threaded performance, while the Core I9 continues to struggle. SPECworkstation is mostlyanother pain point for Intel. With some tests againfavoring the 10th gen Core I9, thanks to it's additionalcores and threads. Even the Core I5 struggleswith 10 to 14 percent lower aggregate scores than AMDacross the life sciences, financial services, andenergy segments of the test. Not looking great so far, atleast not for the Core I9. But now we need to talkabout power in thermals, and we're gonna talk alot, because if you recall Comet Lake was better thanCoffee Lake for thermals, but only because Intelbusted out all the tricks of the trade to make it happen. And now despite having two fewer cores, all earlyreports had Rocket Lake pegged at basically beinga flame thrower in addition to the performanceconcerns relative to AMD. At stock, both are Core I9and Core I5 managed thermals that are reasonable. Thanks in large part to strictly conforming to Intel's rated 125 watt TDP, once turbo expires. They do draw much higherpower than last gen to hit their peak all coreturbo speeds, but in the Core I9's case, Intel's newadapted boost technology impressively allows thecores to run 300 megahertz higher all core than it's rated for. This new behavior is similarto AMD's Precision Boosts Two, opportunisticallyincreasing all Core clocks within thermal and powerlimits, but Intel's is still constrained by their finiteturbo period of 56 seconds by default. Upon disabling this turbolimit using our motherboards multi-core enhancementfeature, the Core I9 draws a staggering 275 watts peakwith 260 watts sustained from the socket. That is nearly doublethe Ryzen 9's power draw. And around 40 percent more than 10th gens. We did get about a 19percent faster render time than stock, but even with our Noctua NHD 15S the I9 instantly hits 80 degrees and creeps up tothe mid 90s throughout the run. Bizarrely though, the CoreI5 manages better thermals and power draw with multi-coreenhancement compared to its own stock turbo,thanks to a lower core voltage provided by the motherboard. These results however were for AVX 2. Intel added the AVX 512instructions set and machine learning extensions toRocket Lake, and they're leaning heavily on the marketing. We don't have any benchmarksfor that right now, but we can do a quick stresstest with Prime95. Where at stock we've gotokay thermals, again, for our Core I9, but our Core I5hits the 100 degree mark thanks to a higher turbospeed before settling into the mid 60s to 70s. Power consumption roughlymatches the non AVX-512 testing, and unsurprisinglyboth CPUs dropped straight to base clock afterthe turbo window expired. It's when we remove thelimits again that, oh no. Intel, are, are you okay? The Core I9 can drawover 290 watts at peak. The Core I5 once again drawsless power thanks to the motherboard SPID control,but both CPUs still run toasty enough that ourdual tower cooler can just barely handle it. We're really at the limits of what Intel's reheated 14nanometer process can do here. Thankfully you won't haveto reheat your drink for up to eight hours with a waterbottle from lttstore.com! But even without AVX-512you have to ask, why is 11th gen so hot, with fewercores than last gen? Aside from AVX-512 taking upa huge amount of dye space, it was originally built for 10 nanometers. That's right, Intel hadto backport this thing. And that's why we got this reallystrange looking procstack. No fewer than 10 eightcore CPUs across Core I7 and Core I9. 9 six core CPUs in the Core I5 line, and everything else is justa Comet Lake refresh. No Rocket Lake Core I3s orPentiums this time around. Without being able to relyon core counts to cleanly distinguish between skews,the differences are so minor in practice that they'regoing to make most people think twice aboutspending an extra $140 for a Core I9 when a CoreI7 is almost as good, or when AMD is a betterperformer for the money. Granted, Core I9s getthermal velocity boost and adaptive boost technology,but you can mimic that by enabling multi-coreenhancement if your motherboard has it or by maxing out thepower loads manually in Intel XTU if it doesn't. All 11th gen core desktopCPUs that we know about, have the same cash for core andthe same improved graphics core with expanded videodecode capabilities on skews that include them. Once more, they all have anextra four PCI express gen four lanes on the CPU now forMVME's storage like AMD does. Hit subscribe by the waybecause even within the same models not all theMVMESSDs are created equal, and we're calling out the worst offender. Now there is the issueof gear one mode support. TLDR, it's just likerunning infinity fabric in one-to-one mode with memory speed on Ryzen for better performance. The Core I9-11900K inKF are supposed to be the only ones that handleDDR4-3200 memory this way, but from our testing theCore I5-11600K can too. It's just not the default. And it'll go even higher than that. It looks like the CoreI9's main draw will be in pre-built PCs that don'texpose these options. If the Core I7-11700K isas Gamers Nexus put it, a waste of sand, the wholeCore I9 line up on paper is even worse. Especially the case skew that's just priced $10 less than Ryzen 9. Thankfully you don't need tobuy a high-end motherboard to use faster memory now,so that's one savings that's no longer exclusive to team red. But that doesn't save the Core I9. In games matching Ryzen'sperformance is a best case scenario, where even theRyzen 5 at times comes close. Granted it may not make orbreak your game play, but the value's just not there. For work, unless you canuse AVX-512, the extra oomph from Ryzen 9's12-cores means Intel is not going to be your firstchoice this generation in that domain either. The real star of the show is the Core I5. It's only about two to six percent slower than the Ryzen 5 at stock across our testing, but itcosts $30 less at retail. Even better for Intel,availability troubles means the 11600K is $100 cheaperthan Ryzen 5's street price. Making it a no brainer as long as Intel has the chips to sell. Bonus, if you don't overclock you'll lose very little by gettinga cheaper non-k skew and turning on multi-coreenhancement to offset the difference in baseclock. Just make sure you get acooler that can handle it. If you're worried aboutupgradability, DDR5's impending arrival meansboth teams sockets have an expiration date at this point, so you lose nothing either way ifyou need a new CPU today. Or, or you lose everything depending on how you think about it. You know, glass half empty, half full. It might be rough going forIntel for a while longer, but it looks like things are improving. A week ago their CEO, Pat Gelsinger, announced a renewed focus on fabrication and processtechnology including a seven nanometer tile processthat will hopefully power Meteor Lake two generations from now. We've heard this kind ofpromise from Intel before, so, time will tell. For now, just buy a Core I5 or AMD when the scalpershave finished scalping. But if Linus won't scalpyou for sponsor segways, I won't either. Get the best prices andbest selection on computer hardware and everything else technology at any of Micro Centers 25 locations across the United States. Check out the MicroCenter custom PC builder to spec out the best PC for your budget. 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