Performance: CPU and Memory
Tests were performed on the Intel Rocket Lake-S platform which contains the i7-11700K, 8-core processor, Ballistix MAX RGB 32GB DDR4-4000 memory kit, ASRock Radeon RX6800 XT Phantom Gaming OC graphics card, Crucial P5 500GB, and Silicon Power US70 1TB NVMe SSD, Patriot PXD 1TB USB 3.2 SSD, Abconcore 850W Gold 80+ PSU, and Enermax Liqmax III 360 AIO CPU cooler.
Let’s begin the tests.
The CPU is highly limited by the cooling but it’s hard to find any better cooler on the market unless we start to build our own, custom water loops. The CPU is running without issues at declared 5GHz on single cores and at up to 4.6GHz on all cores. Overclocking is highly limited as I already said, but we were able to stabilize our i7-11700K CPU at 4.9GHz on all cores. Just as a comparison, on previously reviewed ASRock Z590 Extreme, we could only reach 4.8GHz.
RAM works well up to DDR4-3600 at which it uses a 1:1 memory controller ratio. We are able to set anything higher but will work at a lower ratio so the performance will be also lower than expected. This is a new setting in the Rocket Lake processor series.
The performance is as high as expected. Below is our 32GB kit in AIDA64 Cache and Memory Benchmark.
More important seems performance in daily applications and this situation simulates PCMark 10. Our results are great for the PC specification so of course, we are happy to see so high scores.
On the next page, we will take a look at 3D benchmarks, which are the most important for gamers.
