The entire Intel Rocket Lake-S family was hosted by Belgian retail store 2Compute. Items listed by the seller include both high-performance processors with the new Rocket Lake-S architecture and entry-level Comet Lake Refresh CPUs (essentially a renamed old generation).
According to the seller, the flagship Rocket Lake-S processor – an 8-core 16-thread Core i9-11900K processor – will be priced at € 499.7 excluding VAT and about € 605 including VAT at 21%. This means that the current 10-core 10900K Comet Lake-S is 9.8% more expensive than the future flagship.
Price comparison for Intel Core i9-11900K and 10900K (2Compute)
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Pricing New 11th Gen Intel Core (2Compute)
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Pricing New 11th Gen Intel Core (2Compute)
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Pricing information from other retail stores was also leaked, collected by Twitter user @ harukaze5719. According to the data he published, some retailers are listing new processors at even lower prices than the existing Comet Lake-S series, but, as a rule, the cost of new solutions is still higher than last year. Thus, although some vendors have already published pricing for the new solutions, it is impossible to determine which is closer to Intel’s suggested retail prices, which have yet to be announced.
Price comparison table for Intel Core i9-11900K and 10900K in different stores (@ harukaze5719)
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Intel revealed Rocket Lake-S at CES 2021. The company said its flagship 8-core Core i9-11900K processor will be faster in gaming than AMD’s 12-core Ryzen 9 5900X. The series’ official debut is scheduled for the end of the quarter, but Intel has not announced an exact launch date for the new processors.
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Rocket Lake-S has up to 8 cores clocked at up to 5.3 GHz with Thermal Velocity Boost. Thus, the new series will offer fewer cores than the current Comet Lake-S family. However, thanks to this, with the same 14-nm technical process, Intel managed to switch to the new Cypress Cove architecture – as expected, it will offer a double-digit increase in the number of instructions executed per clock cycle (IPC).
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Intel Rocket Lake-S processors will also be able to offer 20 PCIe Gen4 lanes for discrete graphics and fast NVMe drives. Existing LGA1200 motherboards with Z490 and H470 chipsets will support the new processors, but some features may require a BIOS update.
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