News Intel's Core i7-11700K 'Rocket Lake' Delidded: A Big Die, Revealed

[Admin]

Intel's Rocket Lake die is massively larger than Intel's Comet Lake.

Intel's Core i7-11700K 'Rocket Lake' Delidded: A Big Die, Revealed : Read more

 

[refillable]

The way Intel is handling the launch reminds me of AMD on the bulldozer era.

 

[TerryLaze]

The way Intel is handling the launch reminds me of AMD on the bulldozer era.

Intel increased the number of execution units by 25% and increased the IGPU.
Bulldozer decreased the execution units per core compared to their previous CPU and had no iGPU at all.
Where you even born yet when AMD had bulldozer around?

 

[hotaru.hino]

The way Intel is handling the launch reminds me of AMD on the bulldozer era.

More like how Intel was handling itself during the Netburst days.

 

[JayNor]

"Cypress Cove microarchitecture (which is a derivative of the company's Willow Cove microarchitecture)"

derivative of Intel's Ice Lake Sunny Cove cores

 

[JayNor]

"... yet since it is made using one of Intel's 14 nm nodes, it is natural that the said IP consumes more silicon area. To that end, it is not surprising that the new CPU is substantially bigger than its predecessor despite the fact that it has fewer cores."

Rocket Lake's predecessor, Comet Lake, used Skylake cores. The difference in size vs Comet Lake, which was also 14nm, is due to the substantial changes in the microarchitecture in the backported Sunny Cove cores which were responsible for Ice Lake's 18% IPC increase in IPC vs its Skylake based predecessor: cache sizes, register files, etc.

There is a table in this article which compares the two, in the context of Cascade Lake vs Ice Lake Server.

The Ticking And Tocking Of Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon SP

It has been a long time since Intel changed its manufacturing process – what it used to call a “tick” – and the microarchitecture and architecture of a

www.nextplatform.com

 

[Conahl]

reguardless, looks like even with newer microcode, performance didnt improve much, and rocket lake could still be a dud :

https://www.anandtech.com/show/1654...fers-small-performance-gains-on-core-i711700k

 

[refillable]

Where you even born yet when AMD had bulldozer around?

How old do you think am I, 8? Why do you get so upset when I didn't say something that exactly true?

More like how Intel was handling itself during the Netburst days.

True, but not many people remember that. I was just comparing this to a more recent fiasco.