Is 11th gen really that bad for non-overclock system?

[alex75871]

I am looking for an affordable and efficient 8-core CPU. The i7-11700 appears to be a good fit but I see a lot of people saying 11th Gen is a waste of space. Are people mainly referring to overclocking SKUs and the 11th gen flagship vs previous gen 10-core flagship? Or should I avoid the entire line up? Right now I can buy an i7-11700 and 32 GB (2x 16 GB) of 3200 MHz Crucial memory fairly cheap from my local store but thought I would check here first.

[Shimejii]

They arent always THAT bad, its just they tended to cost a fair bit more then 10th gen since they were the "new" cpus at the time, and when you could buy a 10850k for 300$ at microcenter, or buy a 11900k for 550$, that has 2 less cores and performs worse, what would you rather do?

 

Generally it just comes down to pricing.

[HQuan]

Why? 11th Gen is still a very good CPU even can't overclocking. Still have stock coller also.

[Featherblade]

11th gen was never a bad generation in a vacuum. They were just a poor value compared to both AMD's offerings and cheap Intel 10th gen parts. If you can get 11th gen stuff for a good price it's fine.

[Chris Pratt]

It was just the 11900K people were down on. It was an awful value that actually performed worse than the 10900K that came before. The rest of the line up was fine. It wasn't a huge jump over 10th gen, but performance was better, and they basically matched performance with AMD's Zen 3, at least in the models where they directly competed. With the 11900K being a joke, 11th gen had no answer to the 5900X or 5950X from AMD.

 

[LIGISTX]

47 minutes ago, alex75871 said:

I am looking for an affordable and efficient 8-core CPU. The i7-11700 appears to be a good fit but I see a lot of people saying 11th Gen is a waste of space. Are people mainly referring to overclocking SKUs and the 11th gen flagship vs previous gen 10-core flagship? Or should I avoid the entire line up? Right now I can buy an i7-11700 and 32 GB (2x 16 GB) of 3200 MHz Crucial memory fairly cheap from my local store but thought I would check here first.

11th gen was a side grade from 10th, which was a side grade from 9th, which was a slight upgrade from 8th, etc. 

 

Not that they were bad, they were just not worth upgrading to even if you had the money to blow. But that said, an 11700k is a great CPU, especially if you can get it at a good price.