Intel Core i5-11600K and Core i9-11900K Review

👤by David Mitchelson  Comments 📅30-03-21

Test Setup & Testing

For the purpose of testing both Rocket Lake-S Processors we used the ASRock Z590 Taichi since it is placed as a high-end motherboard, this should give us the capabilities of showing the true potential for both models.

CPUs being tested

Intel Core i5-11600K
Intel Core i9-11900K

TEST SETUP

Cooling Corsair Hydro Series H110i
Motherboard ASRock Z590 Taichi
Memory 32GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000MHz
Graphics Radeon RX 480 8GB
Storage OCZ Vector 256GB SSD + Kingston KC2500 M.2
PSU Corsair RM 1000 80 Plus Gold Certified PSU
Monitor AOC U2879VF

BENCHMARKS

Cinebench R15/R20 – CPU/OpenGL Score
x264 HD 4.0 – 1st and 2nd pass encoding
SiSoftware SANDRA – CPU & Memory benchmarks
POV-RAY – CPU benchmarks
TrueCrypt – CPU benchmarks
AIDA64 – CPU benchmarks & Memory
PCMark 8 – Home Suite & Photoshop
3DMark FireStrike – 3D Benchmark
Games – Rise of the Tomb Raider & Total War: WARHAMMER