It’s been quite some time since Intel announced the official death of the Celeron and Pentium processor lines. These processor lines had been on the market for decades, but the company wanted to eliminate them in order to launch a new product line. Well, the Intel 310a treatment of only two cores and four threads.
Currently, the most basic chips offered by the company are Intel N for embedded systems. Basically, these processors are designed for tablets, convertibles, laptops, and compact systems with very low power consumption.
All of these Intel N processors are characterized by the exclusive use of E-Cores, which are efficient cores. These are low consumption and quite acceptable performance. But this new chip is quite far away and seems to be a hybrid between the N and Core solutions.
Unknown Intel 310 Performance Leaked
This new chip from the company has a lot of features. It stands out because it is the only one of Intel’s two processors without efficiency cores in the Raptor Lake family that uses an Alder Lake die.
This processor was first spotted in the Geekbench software, allowing us to see its performance. We know that this processor has 2 power cores and 4 threads running at a maximum frequency of 4.1 GHz. We see that this chip has Turbo Boost technology, the base frequency of this chip and the TDP are not clear.
Let’s say we currently have the Intel 300, which would be the shortened version of this chip. It also has a 2-core, 4-thread configuration that reaches up to 3.9 GHz. This processor has a TPD of 46 watts and costs around 80-90 dollars. Most likely, the Intel 310 will have a TDP close to 50 watts and could cost around 120-130 dollars.
This processor offers us a single-core performance of 2,152 points, very close to the Core i3-13100, which offers a result of 2,253 points. This new Intel 310 offers us a multi-core power of 4,254 points. These are very good performance data, surely with high energy efficiency.
What’s interesting is that the system that mounts this Intel chip is paired with a single DDR4 RAM module with a capacity of 8 GB. This is not ideal at the moment, since a minimum of 16 GB of RAM would be required, but we imagine that this will be a development test.
It should be noted that the proposed scores are distorted precisely because only one RAM module is used. The performances are considerably distorted precisely by this same factor. Surely with a Dual Channel RAM configuration, the single-core performances of the Intel 310 would be superior to those of the Core i3-13100.
As we mentioned, this Intel 310 would be a replacement for the discontinued Celeron and Pentium lines. Most likely, these processors will use the LGA 1700 socket and will be very low-cost solutions for PCs. This processor also stands out for the fact that it completely lacks NPU cores. This would make Copilot+ impossible to use under Windows 11.
We don’t have a release date for these chips, but they probably won’t get an official announcement. Cheap processors like this are simply thrown into the market without any prior notice.
