Mar 16, 2021 11:00 EDT with 35 comments
After months of teasing and even being forced to tip its hand on a release date, Intel is finally detailing its 11th-generation desktop processors, codenamed Rocket Lake-S. While they re still built on a 14nm node, there s quite a bit that s new, including a new architecture with up to 19% IPC (instructions per clock cycle) improvement.
They also come with all-new integrated graphics. Called UHD Graphics 750 but using Iris Xe architecture, Intel is promising up to a 50% boost over the previous generation. The family is also getting new AI features with Intel Deep Learning Boost.
That s not all though, and we can go straight down the list of new features. Rocket Lake-S will support up to 20 PCIe 4.0 lanes, whereas its predecessor only had support for PCIe 3.0, which had half the bandwidth. There s support for faster DDR4-3200 memory, integrated HDMI 2.0, support for 10-bit AV1 and 12-bit HEVC, and more overclocking features.