Record-breaking Intel Core i7-11700K blows away the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X and Ryzen 9 5950X in single-core and multi-core testing - but this is on UserBenchmark
Obviously any article about UserBenchmark brings out a wave of criticism from those who value the services other synthetic benchmarks provide, but sometimes results deserve to be reported simply because of their outlandish nature. In this case, we have the upcoming Intel Core i7-11700K obliterating everything in its way to take control of the 1-core, 2-core, 4-core, 8-core, and average benchmark percentage charts…and it’s not even the most-powerful SKU in the Rocket Lake-S series. If the i7-11700K can blow away rivals such as the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X and the Ryzen 9 5950X, by quite a margin, then it makes one wonder what miraculous results the Intel Core i9-11900K will eventually produce on the same site.
The UserBenchmark results for the 8-core, 16-thread Intel Core i7-11700K are currently based on four samples, compared to thousands for the AMD chips, with the Team Blue desktop processors apparently churning out record scores all the way from single-core benchmarks up to 8-core tests. The following table of average scores gives a snapshot of the apparent magnificence of the Rocket Lake-S part:
| Intel Core i7-11700K | AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | AMD Ryzen 9 5950X | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1-core | 182 points | 159 points | 159 points |
| 2-core | 364 points | 317 points | 314 points |
| 4-core | 707 points | 605 points | 605 points |
| 8-core | 1,240 points | 1,176 points | 1,190 points |
| Benchmark % | 113% | 101% | 101% |
Interestingly if you add the points that UserBenchmark awards in each category (normal/heavy/server), you then get a much different result thanks to the additional cores that the AMD samples wield (12 for the Ryzen 9 5900X, 16 for the Ryzen 9 5950X):
| Intel Core i7-11700K | AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | AMD Ryzen 9 5950X | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | 213 points | 188 points | 187 points |
| Heavy | 973 points | 890 points | 898 points |
| Server | 1,651 points | 2,348 points | 2,920 points |
| Total | 2,837 points | 3,426 points | 4,005 points |
It’s well-documented that UserBenchmark has a points-weighting system that heavily favors fewer-core workloads, which in turn will generally favor Intel parts that often outpace their AMD rivals in single-core benchmarks. The i7-11700K has already proven its processing chops in numerous leaks, but +11.88% over the best that Ryzen 5000 has to offer in average benchmark percentage and +16.86% ahead in 4-core testing seem hard to swallow, especially when the Intel Core i9-11900K has still to make an undoubtedly "astonishing" appearance on this divisive benchmark.
