ModelĪs you can see above, Braswell's base operating frequencies are much lower than Bay Trail-D parts. The last three will be made in versions for desktop systems and today we have the N3050 and N3700 in hand. A few months ago Intel quietly launched its first desktop Braswell SoC solutions, offering dual-core and quad-core Celeron models along a single quad-core Pentium.ĭestined for entry-level laptops and desktops, the new chips are manufactured using Intel's 14nm process and include the mobile Celeron N3000, N3050, N3150, and Pentium N3700. Now we have Intel's new Braswell SoCs, which promise to be faster across the board while also consuming less power. Overall, in anything non-3D related, the J1900 was the way to go for extreme budget builders while AMD's AM1 platform was better equipped for 3D rendering. We found that the Celeron J1900 was a better value than the J2900 as it offered a similar level of performance at a much lower price. The only difference being that the J2900 could self-overclock on the fly with a maximum burst speed of 2.67GHz, allowing for 6% more performance on average. The Pentium J2900, like the J1900, also featured four cores clocked at 2.41GHz with a 2MB L2 cache and the same rubbish four EU GPU. The included GPU was a heavily diluted HD Graphics engine with just four execution units, which helped Intel keep the Bay Trail-D power requirements at a minimum. To recap, the Celeron J1800 was a dual-core part clocked at 2.58GHz with a tiny 1MB L2 cache, while the J1900 had four cores working at 2.41GHz and double the cache. At the time we checked out the Asrock D1800M (Celeron J1800), Q1900M (Celeron J1900) and Q2900 (Pentium J2900). However, setbacks in developing the 14nm process delayed the arrival of Broadwell parts, especially the high performance variants.Īlthough it launched in 2013, we didn't get our hands on the desktop Bay Trail-D variants until August of 2014, once Asrock started peddling its Bay Trail Motherboards.
When Intel announced an accelerated roadmap for its Atom SoC range in May 2011, the company's 22nm Silvermont microarchitecture was scheduled for a 2013 release and would later receive a 14nm die shrink in 2014, codenamed Airmont.