Intel Core i5-11400F 11th Gen Rocket Lake Processor

Intel 11th Gen Core i5-11400F Rocket Lake Processor

This new 11th gen Rocket Lake microarchitecture is manufactured with the 14nm process that comes with six cores and twelve threads. As this chip is updated to the latest BIOS revision, it nicely fits into any Intel 400 and 500 series motherboards. Focusing on this, all the major motherboard manufacturers have already started BIOS updates for their 400 and 500 series lineup. These Processors also support 64-bit computing on Intel architecture require an Intel x86-64 (64 bit) architecture-enabled BIOS.

Core Benefits of the Processor
Intel 11th Generation Core i5-11400F Processor having the base frequency of 2.60 GHz that can be reached as max turbo frequency at 4.40 GHz. The processor has a compatibility socket of LGA 1200 that is supported by 400 and 500 series Intel motherboards. It has a SmartCache of 12 MB containing 6 cores and 12 threads. With a bus speed of 8 GT/s, it has thermal design power (TDP) rating of 65W. This latest microchip has few expansion options such as 4.0 PCI express revision having configured up to Up to 1×16+1×4, 2×8+1×4, 1×8+3×4 and a maximum of 20 lanes. Considering the memory this processor has a dual-channel of max 128GB of the size that supports up to DDR4-3200 bus speed.

Intel Core i5-11400F Review

The Intel Core i5 11400F is one of the best of the latest 11th Gen desktop CPUs, and it’s also one of the cheaper six-core, 12-thread processors you’ll find. For half the price of the equivalently core-happy AMD Ryzen 5 5600X, you’re certainly not getting half the gaming performance.

So yes, it has actually happened; Bizarro CPU World has come to pass. This strange new reality is one where the dominant processor player is AMD, with the most expensive, most powerful chips available to PC gamers, and Intel is the one providing the budget alternatives that punch way above their weight class. This is a turnaround of epyc proportions. That ‘F’ suffix in the Core i5 11400F denotes a lack of iGPU in the processor package, which is no bad thing for a budget gaming CPU, and normally means a cheaper chip. Times are strange, however, and the Core i5 11400 is exactly the same CPU but with those integrated GPU cores enabled. It should be more expensive, but is actually available for a lot less right now.

performance

Performance should be practically the same between the two so you can almost pick which of those two versions of the 11400 silicon is cheapest and be happy with your choice. Because the Core i5 11400/F is a great budget gaming CPU.

As a CPU generation itself, however, Rocket Lake has felt kind of lacklustre. The top-end Core i9 11900K is a chip that only its parents could love. It offers fewer cores than its erstwhile Core i9 compatriot and features the bastardised Cypress Cove core architecture that pulled the 10nm Sunny Cove core back into the arms of 14nm manufacturing.

This backport resulted in a bigger slice of silicon and meant it couldn’t fit the previous generation’s ten-core maximum into the top Rocket Lake chip, and if nothing else that made it feel like tangibly worse value.

But what Cypress Cove does deliver is higher IPC, and that has led to higher gaming performance across the board compared with previous Intel desktop chips. Though up top, considering what you’re missing out on compared with either the Core i9 10900K or Ryzen 9 5900X, the boon of higher gaming performance doesn’t make up for genuine lack in multithreaded grunt.

Lower down the stack, however, it’s a different matter. The Core i5 11600K is a great little chip, far cheaper and at least as effective a gaming chip as the popular Ryzen 5 5600X. Take the power shackles off in your BIOS, forgetting the dire situation we’ve put the planet in, and you can squeeze even more performance out of the chip.

This processor has 03 years warranty (no warranty for fan or cooler).