Intel stated this week that it’s closing the guide on its Eleventh-gen Core chips, code-named “Rocket Lake.” The firm issued an end-of life discover that covers the complete Rocket Lake chip lineup in addition to its supporting chipsets.

Intel stated that it’s going to settle for orders for the chips up till August 25, transport them by February 2024, so distributors and retailers could have some time to replenish if desired. The end-of -life discover for the Rocket Lake family in addition to the supporting chipsets was observed by Tom’s Hardware.

In actuality, although, the Rocket Lake structure gained’t be notably missed. As our original review of Rocket Lake identified, Intel’s Eleventh-gen desktop processor was the final vestige of Intel’s 14nm manufacturing course of, which at the moment had endured seven entire years of Intel designs. Intel’s Eleventh-gen cellular processors, nonetheless, had since migrated to Intel’s 10nm course of know-how. Intel had migrated the Core i9-11900K to the brand new Cypress Cove CPU structure, however had ended up sacrificing among the CPU cores within the course of.

Perhaps its best sin, although, was in energy consumption. According to our checks, the flagship Rocket Lake chip consumed a whopping 68 p.c extra energy, below load, then the Ryzen 9 5900X, its closest competitor. Though power costs may not have been then what they’re now, that’s nonetheless lots of juice.

In any case, if you happen to’re nonetheless determined for an Intel Core chip from yesteryear, get your orders in quickly. If you’re in search of one thing far more potent, nonetheless, you should definitely try our roundups of the best CPUs for gaming. The beastly new Core i9-13900K completely trounces the 11900K in each attainable manner.