Critic Score
Pros
- Gaming performance(6)
- Pcie 4.0 support(5)
- Snappy single-threaded performance(2)
Cons
- High power consumption(4)
- Only 8 cores compared to previous generation(3)
- Pricey for an eight-core desktop solution in 2021(2)
6 Critic Reviews
Intel's Core i9-11900K aims to reclaim gaming performance leadership with its new Cypress Cove cores and improved single-threaded performance.
The Intel Core i9-11900K is a new processor with 8 cores, 16 threads, and back-ported Willow Cove cores, featuring new Xe graphics and platform improvements but facing criticism for core count regress...
The Core i9-11900K is impressive in gaming and lightly-threaded work, but it trails the Ryzen 9 5900X tremendously in threaded work and doesn't cement itself well enough in gaming to justify the premi...
Die-hard gamers and Intel loyalists can safely opt for the "Rocket Lake" Core i9-11900K, Intel's mainstream 11th Generation flagship desktop CPU.
Rocket Lake has been hamstrung by 14nm and the power draw is awful to behold.
The Core i9-11900K is Intel's flagship offering in their new Rocket Lake-S desktop CPU series, but it's slower than its predecessor while costing more.
