Intel N95 Alder Lake-N CPU Specs And Preliminary Performance Revealed In Benchmark Leak

Intel is sunsetting the Pentium and Celeron brands for low-end laptop parts. Low-end laptop processors will apparently just be called "Intel Processors" now. Simple enough, we suppose. The tearless electric retina of the BenchLeaks bot has spotted the first benchmark for one such processor, and it is apparently known as the Intel Processor N95.


Further hampering graphics performance is the missing second memory channel. Where all of Intel's other consumer CPUs have two 64-bit memory channels, the Coelacanth's information puts Alder Lake-N down for just one. That'll severely limit performance in memory-constrained applications, although the use of fast DDR5 memory means that it probably won't be a problem in general. In that light, the Geekbench 5 results are actually very impressive. The single-core score, with a maximum clock of 2.8 GHz, comes within striking distance of a full-power Haswell desktop processor, although the shared L2 and lack of hyper-threading (as well as what is surely a restrictive power limit) hurt its multi-core performance.

Much like AMD's Mendocino low-power processors, this chip is probably destined to end up in Chromebooks and similar entry-level, low-cost applications. In that context, we suspect it will do just fine, but of course, a single GeekBench result from pre-release hardware is nothing to base a final decision on.