MSI says Intel Rocket Lake-S CPUs will be available late March

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And it confirms that BIOS updated 400-series motherboards will support RKL-S.

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[3dcandy]

why am I totally underwhelmed by this piece of non news?

[LSG501]

why am I totally underwhelmed by this piece of non news?

Probably for the same reason as me...it's more of the same from intel and it's still likely going to be better to have AMD Ryzen 5000, especially if you need more than 8 cores like me

[Tabbykatze]

Probably for the same reason as me...it's more of the same from intel and it's still likely going to be better to have AMD Ryzen 5000, especially if you need more than 8 cores like me

Yup, exactly.

For me, it's a desperate architectural backport that although with reasonably better IPC, it's still going to get dragged down by the now overwhelmingly hot 14nm+++ process at high frequencies. It'll be nice that Intel is finally doing PCIe 4.0 but it's just guff being bolted on at this point.

We'll see what it's really like come release but I'm going to continue to trust nothing Intel says because they've been provably untrustworthy with their statements and "metrics".

I liked Steve from Gamers Nexus (paraphrased, can't find which vid he said this in, likely the disappointment PC 2020) saying "they'll be clawing their way back into doing benchmarks because that's the way this works".

[LSG501]

We'll see what it's really like come release but I'm going to continue to trust nothing Intel says because they've been provably untrustworthy with their statements and "metrics".

I'm always curious as to whether their 'metrics' are comparing the new chips with the old chips after they've had all their security patches etc and had their performance reduced a little from release.... 10% uptick versus a 2/3 year old cpu (they always seem to pick an 'old' cpu) isn't that impressive when that 2/3 year old cpu has lost say 5% due to security patches lol.

[Tabbykatze]

I'm always curious as to whether their 'metrics' are comparing the new chips with the old chips after they've had all their security patches etc and had their performance reduced a little from release.... 10% uptick versus a 2/3 year old cpu (they always seem to pick an 'old' cpu) isn't that impressive when that 2/3 year old cpu has lost say 5% due to security patches lol.

Almost willing to bet money that they don't considering reviewers seem to be restricted into them not being allowed to test with mitigations on. I'm pretty sure I remember one or two reviewers being told in the review briefing that they couldn't run them with mitigations enabled.

Considering the biggest mitigation is "disable SMT", that's pretty harmful to performance!

[Xlucine]

No such thing as a bad chip, just a bad price. If they cut prices like they did for HEDT chips a while back then it'll be a cracking bit of kit

[Rubarb]

No such thing as a bad chip, just a bad price. If they cut prices like they did for HEDT chips a while back then it'll be a cracking bit of kit

Trouble is it will also be a new motherboard too

[Rob_B]

Trouble is it will also be a new motherboard too

Still LGA-1200

[bae85]

Can't wait to see the power requirements! Wonder if it'll surpass the 300watt record of its predecessor!