News Intel's Dual-Core Alder Lake-N CPU Benchmarked

[Admin]

Intel's cheapest Alder Lake-N gets Geekbenched.

Intel's Dual-Core Alder Lake-N CPU Benchmarked : Read more

 

[bit_user]

Does anyone know how many different dies there are for Alder Lake-N? I've only found one die shot, which shows all 8 cores and is about 60% as big as the die of the i9-12900K! That would mean every N50 is made from an 8-core die with 6 of them disabled. Given that they probably don't have too many which are that defective, that would make these N50's either extremely rare or not very cost-effective for Intel to sell.

 

[usertests]

Does anyone know how many different dies there are for Alder Lake-N? I've only found one die shot, which shows all 8 cores and is about 60% as big as the die of the i9-12900K! That would mean every N50 is made from an 8-core die with 6 of them disabled. Given that they probably don't have too many which are that defective, that would make these N50's either extremely rare or not very cost-effective for Intel to sell.

Yeah well there's a reason it took this long to surface. They are just wasting perfectly good silicon for the customers who ask for it I guess.

It's not unprecedented. See the Ryzen 3 5125C.

 

[heickel.ramadhan]

is there a Quad Core version, are these socketable? if it is I might looking for my upcoming Plex Server/NAS thing

 

[bit_user]

is there a Quad Core version, are these socketable? if it is I might looking for my upcoming Plex Server/NAS thing

Most N-series are quad-core and none of them are socketable.

Products formerly Alder Lake-N

ark.intel.com

However, you can find a couple mini-ITX boards with them:

• https://www.asus.com/motherboards-components/motherboards/prime/prime-n100i-d-d4/
• https://www.asus.com/motherboards-components/motherboards/csm/prime-n100i-d-d4-csm/
• https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/N100DC-ITX/index.us.asp

And even a micro-ATX board:

• https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/N100M/index.us.asp#Specification

...although you should pay close attention to the specs on it.

Unfortunately, none of these are ideal for a file server or NAS, due to the lack of support for ECC memory. Some of the industrial-oriented boards support in-band ECC.

Also, the above boards each support only 1x DDR4-3200 DIMM, which is fine for a micro-server or NAS, but not great for a desktop.