[Hardware] Intel N50 Alder Lake-N CPU Benchmarked, Dual E-Core Design At 6W

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Intel N50 CPU which is part of the Alder Lake-N family has been benchmarked and features just two E-Cores running at a 6W TDP.

Intel N50 Is The Most Entry-Level Alder Lake-N CPU With Just Two E-Cores At 6W
Intel's Alder Lake-N series targets the lower-end segment with multiple processors running at much lower power consumption. The CPUs replaced "Pentium" & "Celeron" branding, harnessing the new E-cores (Gracemont). Now a new Geekbench listing has revealed what we can expect in terms of performance of the most entry-level chip within the lineup, the Intel N50 CPU.

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Diving into the specifications, the Intel N50 CPUs feature a dual E-Core configuration so that's 2 cores and 2 threads with a maximum turbo frequency of 3.4GHz. The common aspect of all products of the Alder Lake-N lineup is severely low power consumption, hence the Intel N50 has only 6W TDP, maintaining the norm. Moreover, the SoC supports DDR4 memory at 3200 MT/s and DDR5 memory at 4800 MT/s.

The Geekbench listing has revealed the single-core and multi-core performance of the Intel N50. We have compiled a graph below to show the performance difference within individual SoCs in the Alder Lake-N lineup.

N50
1.4k
1.1k
N97
2.9k
1.2k
N100
3.4k
1.3k
i3-N305
5.5k
1.4k
The benchmarks reveal that the N50 CPU is the lowest offering in the whole lineup, considering it is a 2 E-Core variant with much lower frequencies. One astonishing fact about this particular SoC is that Intel has incorporated a separate iGPU at just 6W TDP. However, the Intel UHD iGPU only features 16 EU (Execution Units); hence we should expect any sort of gaming performance from it. In a previous report, Intel's N100 iGPU was benchmarked, which also didn't perform up to the mark, with an average of 20 FPS in many titles.

The Intel Alder Lake-N lineup is suitable for low-power computing, especially for laptops like the Chromebook series. It doesn't hold much performance, but considering the processors' low TDP, it is still a decent option for many devices. The included E-Cores are known to provide excellent multi-threading performance, as in N100, which is why the lineup is compelling for less workload devices.

link: https://wccftech.com/intel-n50-alder-lake-n-cpu-benchmarked-dual-e-core-design-at-6w/