Something to expect: In some initial benchmarks, Intel’s eleventh generation is demolishing its predecessors and fighting its competitors. It is a safe bet to say that these will be some sought after processors.
In the past few days, some scores from i9-11900K, i7-11700K and i5-11500 Geekbench have come on the scene. Intel’s flagship entered the race for the leaderboards. Although it is difficult to say, it seems that the 11900K is only beaten by processors running a different operating system or using extreme overclocking.
To frame the scene, a Ryzen R9 5950X usually scores 1682 points in the single-core test, and the 10900K, 1402. The next 11900K scored 1892, a 35% generation jump and a 12% advantage over the Ryzen part. The 11700K was just a hair back, with four scores around the 1810 mark.
As we mentioned before, Intel’s upcoming Core i7 and i9 processors will only be 8 cores, so their multi-core scores aren’t great, but they are good for core counting. The 11900K scored 10934, while the 11700K ranged from 10639 to 11287. AMD’s 5800X octa-core is slightly behind with 10426 points, while the current 10-core 10900K is in the middle with 10930 points.
There has been concern that the eight cores of the 11900K may lag behind the ten cores of the 10900K. The good news (although it sounds silly) is that these results say the 11900K will be better than the 10900K in all aspects, as a successor should be. But … all the performance benefits can be undermined by a high price, according to some information from last weekend.
More attractive could be the 11700K. It looks like it will be cheaper and faster than the 10900K. And compared to the 11900K, it should be considerably more affordable and almost as powerful – during testing, the 11700K ran at 5 GHz, a negligible notch below the 5.3 GHz of the 11900K. Nothing that a little overclocking wouldn’t fix.
Completing the tail of the series are the scores of i5-11500 and i5-11400. Both are 6-core and 12-wire parts. The former ran at 4.6 GHz and the latter at 4.4 GHz. The 11500 single-core score of 1588 was 35% above its predecessor, while the multi-core score was 20% higher. The 11400 scores were 10% higher than the 10400 scores.
With the reported prices of $ 240 and $ 225, these two chips should be quite interesting. However, if the price is higher, they will beat against the 5600X, which is already faster than both.