Intel Core i9-11900K: What Real Users Actually Think

They're probably getting discounted at different rates, I wouldn't overthink it too much. I personally wouldn't pay that much for either at this point.

You know how companies market their products with quotes from reviews? I want this to happen with the 11700K and 11900K... "Pathetic" "Waste of sand" "Disappointing" "Absolutely no one should buy this" — INTEL 11th gen core processors! Buy yours today!

The 11900K was always seen as a terrible chip, mainly because its predecessor, the 10900K performs better. That might affect value, but idk.

11th gen was a mess. It was supposed to be a new architecture on a new production process, but Intel couldn't get the process working in time. So they had to 'backport' the architecture to the old process, but this meant it was not possible to fit more than eight cores on the die. So the 11900K ended up with eight cores to the 10900K's ten, and in many workloads the older CPU ended up faster as a result.

If you love Intel, you won't like the answer.

Next year they'll release a good gen and compare it to this shit so that the improvement percentage looks bigger. Nicely played.

It just wasn't smart with money is all. You could've jumped to AM5 and got better performance for the price you paid for that 11900K, which is now awkwardly paired with a 3060 anyways. Shoulda just got a GPU. If you paid MSRP, you could've gotten a B650, 7800x3d, and 32 gb of Ram for $480 for instance.

The 11900k is not a BAD cpu by any means, it's just positioned poorly in both product stack and pricing. If Intel had sold it as a 10700k Mk II at $415 we would probably be singing its praises.

Jesus christ Intel what the hell, how did you manage to actually go backwards in terms of both raw performance, as well as performance/value?? Is the 11900k just meant to try and move the previous 10900k off the shelves faster? Honestly just purely embarrassing.

Steve makes a good point; why didn't they just refresh the 10900K? Was it a marketing/optics thing? Did they think consumers would feel less confident in buying a 11600K if there wasn't a flagship 11900K as well? Maybe it was sunk cost fallacy; investing so much in Rocket Lake that they couldn't bring themselves to abandon all that work.

Don't let it take away from your enjoyment of a good cpu. Learn from it to make a more educated decision next time, but have fun with your build. It's a good one and will last you a while.

Its not a bad CPU, its still quite capable. Very similar to something like a Ryzen 7 5800X in performance, which is still half decent. But the problem is that it was and still is ridiculously overpriced for the amount of performance you'd get from it. The CPU alone generally goes for a similar price as a considerably faster & better new CPU and motherboard combined.

For a 3090 + 11900K combo, a high end 850W (the platinum one passed and the gold one failed) or a generic 1000W is recommended for the absolute worst case scenario.

Yes, it is worse than any of the current amd 5000 series cpu's at gaming and it is also worse than the 10900k in most games and almost every production workload, there are even cases when the 10700k will beat the 11900k. Main reason for this is the intel cpu 11th gen as a whole have worse ipc than the current amd cpu's and less cores while at the same time having less cores than the previous gen intel cpu's.

Rocket Lake was always the perfect codename.

It still has a place, as decor on store shelves.

This 'generation' should never have happened. Waste of time and fab space, and hurts Intel's reputation. I've been bitching about an 8-core i9 for 11th Gen since it was rumored and somehow Intel have managed to make the whole situation even more embarrassing than I imagined it would be.

It gets outperformed by the 10900k in a fair amount of tasks. 11th gen was a joke at launch, worse than 14th gen. Still a decent upgrade though and I bet you got it fairly cheap so it's not something to feel bad about. Enjoy the upgrade.

How about a Intel 12600k? Its on the newer LGA1700 socket. It outperforms both for gaming. Beats even the 11900k in rendering in both multi and single and is even faster in things like code compilation. Also it sells for 198€ in Germany and Austria.

Intel's rocket fell into the lake on the way to the launch pad. It's just that bad.

The i9 11900K is basically the i7 11700K 'collector's edition' is how I think of it lmao.

Look, it's done. Stop looking back, stop letting people with negative energy affect you. The i9-11900K is a decent upgrade from your i5 and will give you a couple or three more years of use, especially as it was just a drop in upgrade. In a few years when you're ready to upgrade, take a little bit of time to research which set up will be best for your needs and budget.

In realistic gaming it doesn't really matter at least if you overclock. 9900k oc vs 10900k oc vs 11900k oc vs 5800x are more or less on the same level in realistic gaming. 1-3% on avg while there are a few games that have like a 10% gap between 9900k vs 5800x both oc.

Rocket lake was very underrated. Could run stupid voltages and still run nice and cool. If you're running 5.4 all core then you got a really nice chip. Most people just watched a negative Gamers Nexus review and wrote the whole thing off.

Nah they are not. An i5-13600k is better than i9-11900k. So don't pay attention to the i9 part and go for the generation.

As a 10850k owner, I'm happy to see the 10th gen chip mopping the floor with the 11900k. Can't believe Intel thought it would be a good idea to release a chip that's currently ~$200 more than its predecessor and performs objectively worse across the board.

This is only a good upgrade for people who has less than 8 cores right now. People with good 9 or 10 gen should absolutely skip this.

I got a delidded uber platinum binned 11900K that can do 5.4GHz All-core on AIO and 4000MHz DDR4 G1 on a 64GB kit. This thing is a beast of a CPU and is still very fun to overclock. Just thought I'd share how much power it can pull when doing AVX512 on y-cruncher haha. Absolutely ridiculous amounts of power for just 8-cores but also ridiculous it is coolable since it has a massive die.

11th gen will age like milk with its shoddy performance and core count. Its not good architecture with inconsistent performance across the board. 11900k is absolute waste of money, if you want 11th gen then get 11700k if not, get zen 3 counterparts.

Steve at Gamers Nexus said the 11900k was a waste of sand, which was kind of true in the context in which it launched. However, you got a drop-in replacement for your old CPU that does improve the gaming potential of your computer. People will parrot whatever the TechTube influencers say, so the 11900k has an underservedly bad reputation to this day. I suggest you ignore the haters and enjoy your perfectly capable PC.

The 10900k is generally better because it has more cores, it's a 10 core/20 thread CPU. The 11900k only has 8 cores. There are some minor architectural improvements in 11th gen over 10th gen, but they don't count for much, especially given that 11th gen tends to struggle to clock as high as 10th gen.

Its not a 'bad' chip, it just costs a lot more than it should making it a bad deal. For gaming anyway it really doesn't matter that much, the differences are a few percentage.

I can't say anything wrong about the i9-11900K. Today, we have really good coolers, and with a little smart undervolting and a bit of overclocking, you have a beast for gaming. I'm still using it, and wow, I guess I'll skip Intel's 15th series because I don't need the nonsense they push. I'm a PC enthusiast, and I've tried all the flagship CPUs and tech.

It's crazy that people can't consider a CPU upgrade. Going to an entirely new socket is a huge change, new motherboard and memory. The 11900K is still a CPU, it's still going to work. Plus, at 1440p for an RTX 4070 Ti the GPU is the bottleneck, the 10400F would have been holding that 4070 Ti back but the 11900K is good enough to let the 4070 Ti go as far as it can in 1440p and 4K for that matter.

I'm playing i9-11900k + 3070 and it's been awesome. I'm a programmer and an obsessive gamer. The only issue I have is that my motherboard needs to be replaced and it's really difficult to get a new one that'll run an 11th gen chip so I might need to upgrade again.

For gaming you likely aren't going to see much benefit by going over a 11600K. The 11900K and 11700K have very very similar specs — the 11900K is clocked a little higher, but runs a lot hotter as a result.

For gaming even a lowly i5-12400F will beat the 11900K. Rendering on the 12400F is a touch slower than the 11900K, but there even an i5-12600K will eat the 11900K for breakfast. The i5-13600K is so much faster than the 11900K it's not funny.

I'm going to be positive here. Moving to a K spec means you can overclock. Moving to 11th gen, your system now supports PCIE4 which means you can get a few more % out of the 4070ti. 11900K are currently $287 on Amazon, not the MSRP others are quoting.

I have a 11900kf, didn't really have a choice as I bought my setup during scalper days during covid. The CPU was always hot, even on a 360mm AIO on idle it avg 51degrees. Under load it would go to 80-87 degrees. It wasn't until yesterday that I've bought a 7800x3d and a few other new parts to upgrade my pc from the 11900kf. Horrible OC quality too as I didn't win the RNG and my cpu package overheated if I crank the voltage even just a bit.

Interesting that most people haven't spoken about the real reason why the 11900K is a dumpster fire of a product. The 11th gen was Intel attempting to use a new architecture designed for a smaller lithography, but they couldn't actually shrink their process node in time for production, so you get an architecture with parts of it being cut off to fit. What reviewers said: 'Pathetic' -Gamers Nexus, 'It's shit' -Hardware Unboxed.

The 11900K is the best CPU that works in motherboards that support an 11900K. The negativity about it is mostly that it was a waste of money and draws a lot of power anyways.

Not bad for a 3080! I'd estimate its performance to be on par with the 5800X, 7600X, or 13400. Last week, I compared the 5800X against the 11700K and 11900K, and a friend tested his 7600X in Cyberpunk 2077 — he got nearly identical results to both CPUs.

There are no bad CPUs, only bad prices. 11900k would be a perfect cpu performance wise if the price was better. It falls behind the 5800x slightly and the 5800x is currently cheaper. And then you got something like a 10core 10850k which is still perfect for gaming, offers more cores but still cheaper than both mentioned above.

I've had a 10900F, 10850k and a 11900k. The 11900k is the best chip I've owned for gaming. It's the coolest, boosts to crazy high clocks (5.4ghz) and gives the best FPS. That said, in gaming, the difference between all of them is less than a few percent.