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On this episode of The Stout Nerd, Gordon Ung, Brad Chacos, and Adam Patrick Murray dive deep into Intel’s novel 11th-gen “Rocket Lake” Core processors and the firm’s plans for the long urge.

The headline of Gordon’s Core i9-11900K assessment sums it up nicely: Intel’s 14nm farewell tour can’t raze soon ample. Rocket Lake chips marry the firm’s 10nm Ice Lake structure to the 14nm course of that Intel has caught with for over half a decade. This a miniature of unnatural union ends in the inability of two cores, leaving the 11900K with appropriate 8 compared with its 10900K predecessor’s 10. This makes the 11th-gen chip’s efficiency a miniature of a mixed fetch versus AMD’s rival Ryzen 5000 processors, and even Intel’s have final-gen flagship, despite a form of whisk and feature enhancements.

Brad and Gordon debate whether or no longer the Core i9-11900K is price the $540 Intel is soliciting for the processor, each bringing distinctive viewpoints to the table.

After that lengthy alternate, we quick factor Intel’s future manufacturing plans—“tick-tock” is coming serve and Intel will construct x86 chips for other companies. Cure Keanu Reeves: Whoa. In the end, Brad talks about Nvidia in conjunction with the efficiency-boosting Resizable BAR feature to all GeForce RTX 30-sequence GPUs, and the tangled mess of hardware and software you’ll must enable it.

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