3.18.2021

35W Rocket Lake lineup





"Engineered on the new Cypress Cove architecture, 11th Gen Intel Core S-series desktop processors are designed to transform hardware and software efficiency and increase raw gaming performance​. The new architecture brings up to 19% gen-over-gen instructions per cycle (IPC) improvement for the highest frequency cores and adds Intel UHD graphics featuring the Intel Xe graphics architecture for rich media and intelligent graphics capabilities."

No less than nine new 35W processors are now listed and priced by Intel including: Pentium Gold G6405T, Pentium Gold G6505T, i3-10105T, i3-10305T, i5-11400T, i5-11500T, i5-11600T, i7-11700T, and i9-11900T. Retail availability is another story, though. While passive cooling-friendly 35W CPUs used to be available up to Kaby Lake, they are now OEM-exclusive and virtually unobtainable. Please don't get our hopes up, just to dash them, Intel.