The next flagship processor of the 11th generation Intel Core has been listed in a wholesale store in Germany, and in fact there you can already buy the Intel Core i7-11700K at a price of 469 euros, nothing more and nothing less than 150 euros more expensive than its predecessor, the 10700K. Is the price increase worth it?
In this case, we are not talking about prices inflated by scarcity, resale at a higher price or anything like that, it just seems to be the sale price that Intel has set for its next flagship processor of the 11th generation (or at least traditionally the best seller, especially for the gaming ecosystem). This is the processor that will top the charts for the Rocket Lake-S generation, but is it worth paying that much for the difference?
Core i7-11700K now on sale for 469 euros
The wholesale store where this processor has already appeared on sale (and in fact you can buy it if you want) is the well-known MindFactory, the same one that usually provides sales statistics for processors, motherboards and graphics cards every week.
Currently, the 10th generation Intel Core i7-10700K is for sale in stores in Spain for a price of 319 euros, exactly 150 euros cheaper than the 11700K. As we said before, Intel is not having stock problems in its chips (and it is one of the few, thanks to the fact that it still has its own factories) so it is not that the price is inflated because of the shortage or anything like that, but that everything points out that this is your actual selling price.
What sets it apart from its predecessor?
The Intel Core i7-11700K is a processor with 8 physical cores and 16 threads thanks to the brand's HyperThreading technology, and it promises a great performance increase over the previous generation thanks to the use of the updated Cypress Cove cores that they provide a significantly higher CPI. The processor has a maximum Turbo Boost Max 3.0 frequency of 5 GHz and has 16 MB of L3 cache. In addition, this chip will differ from the Core i9-11900K only by the frequency, since the latter will arrive with 5.1 GHz of maximum speed in addition to Thermal Velocity Boost.
For its part, the current Intel Core i7-10700K is a processor that also carries 8 cores and 16 threads, in this case at a base speed of 3.8 GHz and that reaches 5.1 GHz in Turbo Boost Max mode. 3.0. Likewise, it carries 16 MB of L3 cache (Intel Smart Cache) and integrated graphics with the same 125W of TDP as the new Rocket Lake-S processor.
As you can see, the differences between the 11700K and the 10700K are merely architectural, and although it promises to have a much higher performance in IPC, the reality is that it does not contribute much more, and in no way does a price increase of 150 euros seems to be justifiable. . That it is somewhat more expensive in comparison is understandable as it is a new generation that obviously carries improvements, but increasing its price by almost 50% certainly does not make any sense.
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