Intel Core i5-11600K Review

1. Introduction2. What's new with Core i5-11600K?3. Test Setup4. Cinebench 15 and R23 Testing5. 3D Mark, 7-Zip and Handbrake6. Blender and AIDA647. Game tests at 1440p and 1080p8. Power and Heat9. Closing Thoughts10. View All Pages

When you look at the basic specification of Core i5-11600K it looks very similar to the previous generation Core i5-10600K.

Indeed you might even think that Intel has tweaked the CPU just a tiny bit and that little of significance has changed under the hood.

In fact a huge amount has changed as Rocket Lake packs in new Cypress Cove cores, new Xe integrated graphics and a new AI feature called Deep Learning Boost.

To our way of thinking the big news is that Rocket Lake supports 20 lanes of PCI Express Gen 4 (16 lanes for graphics and 4 lanes for the Primary M.2) where Comet Lake supported a mere 16 lanes of PCI Express Gen 3.

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