Enlarge / Intel’s first 12th-generation desktop processors are arriving soon. (credit: Intel) Intel’s 11th-generation desktop computer processors, codenamed Rocket Lake, didn’t impress us much . They were Intel’s sixth processor architecture based on some version of Intel’s 14nm manufacturing process and the first not to use an iteration of the venerable Skylake core from 2015 […]
Enlarge / Our test rig is a little more unlovely than usual, due to Asus’ decision to entomb the CPU socket in surrounding high-rise heatsinks, with the system’s RAM closing in just as tightly from the bottom. (Note the empty pair of DIMM slots.) (credit: Jim Salter) Today marks the start of retail availability for […]
19% gen-on-gen IPC vs 10th gen desktop CPUs sounds great—but the verdict is out on the importance of the “up to” hedge, or the impact of reduced core count in the i9 CPUs. [credit: Intel ] This week, Intel announced their 11th generation S-series desktop CPUs, code named Rocket Lake-S. These are gaming-oriented processors optimized […]
Some initial specs for the new Core i9-11900K. [credit: Intel ] The Consumer Electronics Show this week was never going to be where Intel would venture into extreme detail on major new 12th-generation CPUs, but nonetheless, the company hosted a press conference this morning that laid out a few new evolutions of the 11th-gen CPUs […]