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Intel Reveals Rocket Lake Price, Positioning, and Overclocking Features
By Joel Hruska on March 17, 2021 at 7:30 am
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Intel has revealed Rocket Lake’s full pricing, product mix, and new overclocking features ahead of the CPU’s retail launch on March 30. Rocket Lake CPUs are based on the Cypress Cove microarchitecture and they represent a breath of fresh air after nearly six years of Skylake-era refreshes.
The slide above covers the high-level improvements. To build Cypress Cove, Intel backported the 10nm Sunny Cove microarchitecture it first debuted with Ice Lake back in 2019. On mobile, Sunny Cove had trouble hitting high clock speed, but this was attributed to its process node more than its underlying architecture. The speeds, feeds, and prices on Intel’s new desktop chips broadly confirm this, though there are a few interesting differences between 10th and 11th Gen CPUs that we’ll discuss later in this article.