Anandtech has let the cat out of the bag some 3 weeks early! breaking Intel s embargo that s keeping the big tech toobers mouths tightly closed on their 11th Gen CPU s that were supposed to be the answer to AMD s highly successful Zen 3 5000 CPU s.
Unfortunately just as many techies were expecting Intel s 8 core 14+++++ nanometre CPU s are a big fat FAIL, if it were a rocket then it would have exploded on LAUNCH!
Even at stock settings Intel s rocket lake 8 core processors under load RUN VERY HOT At over 80c, which is not surprising given they consume an eye watering 225watts of power for an 8 core processor, even worse are spikes to over 290watts! Compare that against a 5950x with TWICE the cores that consumes 225watts so it s no wonder that Intel dropped the core count from 10th gen 10 cores to 11th gen s 8 cores.