New Gaming Benchmarks Show Intel Core i7-11700K Edging Closer to AMD Ryzen 7 5800X Performance

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Following on the heels of AnandTech, French hardware site HardwareLuxx has published an early set of benchmarks teasing the potential gaming performance of one of Intel’s upcoming “Rocket Lake-S” processors, the Core i7-11700K. In contrast to AnandTech’s coverage, HardwareLuxx’s metrics seem to paint blue team’s chip in a more positive light, but they still succumb to AMD’s 8C/16T Ryzen 7 5800X counterpart in the majority of benchmarks. Out of four titles, DICE’s Battlefield V was the only game in which Rocket Lake-S had a clear edge over Zen 3.



“The Core i7-11700K simply swims along in most of the benchmarks without attracting particularly negative or positive results,” Andreas...

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