A new round of Rocket Lake benchmarking (Via Tum_Apisak) has brought the rumor factory back into play. The highest Rocket Lake configuration to date has 8 cores, so this 11th generation unnamed processor could be the flagship chip or a variation of it.
If you have not followed Intel’s offers, Rocket Lake marks the end of the Skylake era. With Intel’s latest Cypress Cove core, Rocket Lake promises users a real performance upgrade, unlike previous iterations of Skylake where only minor improvements were made to the existing architecture to justify the introduction of a new product. Intel put off saying exactly how much performance we should see but boasted a double-digit improvement in IPC (instructions per cycle).
SiSoftware lists this particular Rocket Lake example, which has a 16-thread configuration with octa-core and 16MB of L3 cache. The description certainly conforms to the assumed core specification of the Core i9 octa-core SKU.
The Rocket Lake part is reportedly running on a 1.8GHz base clock and a 4.4GHz boost clock. The clock speed is far from the values we have seen previously on another unidentified Rocket Lake processor that has a 3.41 GHz base clock and a 4.98 GHz boost clock. The SiSoftware chip is probably a 65W or 35W model. On the other hand, SiSoftware may misinterpret the clock speed, which refers to unreleased hardware.