Unsurprisingly, commenters to Shrout’s post in regard to this particular synthetic benchmark result have been overwhelmingly skeptical. The teaser, and the carefully constructed accompanying chart, is a very typical Intel maneuver: Vague cherry-picked benchmark comparison with an 8-core 125 W chip facing off against a 16-core 105 W processor. Intel lists the particular systems used, with the Rocket Lake chip paired with an Asus Z590 ROG Maximus XIII Hero and the Ryzen 9 5950X using an Asus X570 ROG Crosshair VIII Hero board. Using the Ryzen 5000 part as a 1.00 baseline, the Intel Core i9-11900K managed 1.11, which is a +11% lead. The official i9-11900K teaser features a slide of results taken from PCMark 10 Quick System Drive Benchmark with the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X featuring as the antagonist here. While it is to be expected that AMD still generally holds a steel multi-core performance grip over Intel, as is highlighted below in the CPU-Z comparison, there are still many desktop PC builders who will focus on the single-core performance of a processor while also factoring in its purchase cost, power consumption, heat emissions, and actual availability. Also, another CPU-Z run for the i9-11900K has appeared that seemingly confirms the 11th Gen processor as the single-core monster to beat. Intel’s chief performance strategist, Ryan Shrout, shared a slide of the Rocket Lake-S part's performance against the fearsome AMD Ryzen 9 5950X.

The Intel Core i9-11900K has been showing its teeth in official and unofficial benchmark runs.

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