Intel i9 11900k, will it beat AMD?

 On 30th March Intel's new lineup, Rocket lake arrived with now Intel's leading desktop processor i9 11900k at a hefty price of $539, but is it worth it? Let's look at that.

SPECIFICATIONS-

• Cores - 8
• Threads - 16
• Processor node - 14nm
• Base Clock - 3.5 GHz
• Boosted clock - 5.3 GHz
• Cache - 16MB
• TDP - 125W
• Integrated GPU - Intel UHD Graphics 750
• Bus speed - 8GT/s

Intel's new Rocket lake SoC uses the cypress cove micro-architecture and promises a 1.19 times IPC improvement.

This time Intel has decided to cut two cores of their top tier CPU, 10900k had 10 cores and 20 threads and now 11900k has 8 cores and 16 threads, which is honestly not the smartest play to many eyes, Intel stated that they could only fit at most 8 cores on the chip.

DOES IT BEAT AMD?

When Intel's 11900K is put against Ryzen 7 5800X and Ryzen 9 5900X, the results are not as impressive as they were thought to be, it is on a good match with 5800X, beating it in most tests, showing it has much better single-threaded performance, so it is a pretty good matchup at performance with 5800X which is at about $450, yeah to put up a fight in performance but not in case of its price, coming at not a good price to performance ratio, but when pu
t up against Ryzen 9 5900X, which is at about $549 at MSRP, it doesn't hold up a chance to come close to beat 5900X, in multithreaded applications, like Blender, Cinebench and more, but does beat it in gaming performance, being able to push more frames than 5900X and 5800X in most games but at the cost of very high power consumption being over 1.5 times than 5800X. It is better in single-threaded applications but not so much in multithreaded, so is it worth over AMD, seeing how close even 5800X gets to 11900K's performance at $100 less, probably not, but it does things right and is quite powerful.

Conclusion

Well, after seeing the performance of 11900k being at stake with 5800X which is $100 less than it, it's still better to go with AMD, And at the same price range getting AMD Ryzen 9 5900X which can overpower,  11900k in multithreaded operations easily makes a pretty good deal.

But that doesn't mean it isn't powerful, pushing more frames in games with a higher power consumption tho.

Intel is losing the race against AMD at quite a pace.

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