Following the example of Anandtech, the editors of the German HardwareLuxx website went to test it purchased in the store Rocket Lake Core i7-11700K. The test turned out similarly, the novelty does not surpass its competitor, the Ryzen 7 5800X, and in games tested at 1080p it seems more like an alternative to the Ryzen 5 5600X. Later, however, the authors of the German test obtained a newer BIOS, about which legends appeared in some discussions, and supplemented the review.
Needless to say, this BIOS (0603 vs. 0402) does exist. It is also true that in most situations it increases performance. At least according to the HardwareLuxx test, however, there is no indication that it could become an eight-core system Rocket Lake become competition to more than eight-core Ryzens. The effect on game performance ranges from tenths of a percent to low percentage units. In application tests, the differences are sometimes slightly higher.
Most BIOS helps really synthetic tests like AIDA64, but a significant shift was also recorded by Y-Cruncher. However, this shift can be understood more as a bugfix, because with the original BIOS, the Core i7-11700K was at the level of Ryzen 5 3600X, with a new BIOS at the level of Ryzen 7 5800X. In this respect, the new BIOS moved the novelty to the performance segment, where its specifications belong, but did not help defeat the competitor.
Tests such as Corona, V-Ray, Blender, CineBench and others have also shifted, but still without surpassing the Ryzen 7 5800X. In the case of Blender-classroom, there has been a shift from Ryzen level 7 3800X on Ryzen 7 3800XT. In Handbrake, VeraCrypt and 7-zip, the Core i7-11700K also ranks among the last generation octaves as the Core i9-9900K (S), Core i7-10700K, Ryzen 7 3800X and the like. Specifically, in the 7-zip, although the new BIOS helped by 6%, the Core i7-11700K still remains 10% below the direct competitor. He is better off in the 3DMark processor test, where Ryzen slightly outperforms.
In four game tests with the Core i7-11700K, it performs better than AMD products only in Battlefield V, but this is due to the fact that it has already worked for previous generations of Intel processors. The difference between the eight-core Core i9-9900KS and the eight-core Core i7-11700K is 2% even after the application of the new BIOS, so the intergenerational shift is not large. In the other games (The Division 2, Metro: Exodus, The Shadow of the Tomb Raider), the Ryzens remain unsurpassed.
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