The Beelink EQ12 Ft. Intel's New 0.8GHz N100 CPU

Intel's Celeron and Pentium lineup no longer exist but in their stead we have the "Intel Processor" range. One of the weakest is the N100, a 12th Gen quad core CPU that is surprisingly snappy. Today we're seeing how it performs inside the budget Beelink EQ12 mini PC.

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[icxcarnie]

I’m impressed that it even produces frames per second, as opposed to seconds per frame. FSR, Fidelity, and DLSS are a Godsend. This is a really neat machine, thanks for sharing.

[Tommy-T]

This chip consumes 6W, its performance / power is straight up incredible. It might not be viable as a desktop, but as a low power x86 server, it'll do just fine.

[dusk]

There's also a new chip named Intel Core i3-N300 which is a 8c/8t cpu, clock up to 3.80ghz but it is the first 8 core i3 cpu ever I think. The igpu instead of 24EU 750mhz like in N100, the i3 N300 has an igpu with 32EU 1250mhz, should deliver significantly more performance. What's weird to me is that both cpus support only single channel ram.

[Joske_]

The fact it runs modern games at actually somewhat playable framerates (for some definition of "playable") at only 6 W TDP is insane.

[keech]

Every other tech Youtuber - "7800X3D is great for power efficiency"
RandomGaminginHD - "Hold my beer"

[tackier]

I think it would be cool if you tested some 2D and Isometric games using this, like Hades, Battle Brothers, Vamp. Survivors. This machine would shine playing simple games at full HD rather than demanding games at very low res.

[nathanddrews]

$240 w/8GB, $260 w/16GB. 24 EUs Intel UHD graphics. Dual 2.5GbE ports. This would make for an incredible DIY pfSense router or even a tiny Plex transcoding server. I'd love to see how well it emulates games and if it can handle full speed Mupen64+ Parallel emulation, specifically.

[purplegill]

I remember way back in the day about this one guy who ran a blog trying to create the most efficient PC possible at the time. It's funny that the 3550 and 3770 were mentioned since he used a 3570k processor and went all the way down to 4w of total system power. It was by no means a good pc, but the fact that it even got some rendering done was incredible. That's also not mentioning how he had to rip off multiple components of the motherboard taking up "unnecessary power"

[liarus]

This little machine is obviously meant to be some kind of homeserver with it's low power cpu and dual Ethernet ports, really impressive to see what it can pull off outside of that scenario

[spronklez]

Whole whopping 0.8GHZ.. still better then my first experience with a pc somehow 🤣

[andystech]

It seems to perform exactly like an Athlon 3000G in both cpu and gpu performance! Quite impressive considering ❤

[Choralone]

For a basic email or light web surfing box it does pretty well. May have a .8 Ghz base speed but turbos up to over 4 times that!
I'm not surprised that Intel is dropping the Pentium and Celeron branding. The Pentium brand has basically stood only for entry level ever since the Core 2 days in the mid to late 2000s. Celeron has basically stood for just barely usable since the Pentium 4 days. Sure, both names were once used in legendary products, but not for many years.

[ELECTROHAXZ]

I'm surprised you didn't mention the dual NICs. My first thought was it would make a great router, firewall, or VPN appliance with OpenWRT or pfsense.

[AlexBoneChannel]

It used to be so that you only had to watch out not to get a Atom, Celeron or pentium if you wanted a reasonably fast computer, but now we have the ‘Intel Processor’

[ConfusedStu]

Thanks for including the Cinebench result. Seeing this match a desktop Ivy Bridge i5 really surprised me and brought home how usable this modern day Atom actually is.

[MTN]

This is the gaming phone future because the higher end core i3 n300 has 8 cores and has similar performance to snapdragon 8 gen 2 while consuming 4 watts less, they could used that 4 watts to inprove further ipgu performance, they could put iris xe from the 9w cpu (eg: i7 1250U) in and it’s the perfect cpu for mobile

[SOF]

I don't know how but its somehow blurry and pixelated at the same time, normally the blur makes it hard to see the pixels but I can see both. Now thats an achievement....

[johnellis]

Wow, I never thought I'd see a cpu that clocks in below 1 ghz again. That turbo boost is insane though, more than 4x over base clock!

[Remi_Jansen]

using this pc as a minecraft server right now, even with 8 people on it, it works beautifully! hovering around 75-85% cpu useage and using only 12 watts, amazing little thing to run 24/7!

[janemba]

Stuff like this is why MXM GPU's never should have gone away.