INTEL E Nuclear Decadal Evolution (2013-2023)

Perhaps many users who hear about the E-core immediately associate it with Atom and believe that the performance of the E-core will be very poor, but this is not the case.

On the occasion of the release of the Intel Inspiron C2000 series ten years ago, foreign technology media ServeTheHome briefly summarized the evolution of Intel's E core from 2013 to 2023.

In general, Intel's Cx000 series E cores have gone through three generations by 2023:

C2000 series: Intel launched Avoton and Rangeley in 2013. This media reviewed the Intel Lingdong C2758, an eight core Intel 1GbE next-generation embedded processor, in 2014.

C3000 series: Released in 2017, this media received the Intel Lingdong C3758 in 2019, which also has 8 cores and is onboard Intel QuickAssist (QAT).

Intel Inspiron C5000 Series: Intel quietly launched in 2022, and this media reviewed the Supermicro A3SPI-4C-LN6PF of the Intel Inspiron C5315 Parker Ridge processor in 2023. The 8-core versions of Parker Ridge are Atom C5320 and C5325. Snow Ridge and Parker Ridge are designed specifically for the era of 25GbE network devices and built based on Intel's 10nm technology.In addition, it also compares with Intel's i3-N305 Alder Lake-N processor. This processor only has one DDR5 channel, no QuickAssist, and no built-in high-speed network. However, N305 has eight E-nuclei and nuclear display.

This media uses GeekBench 6 to make a brief comparison:

From the GeekBench test scores, it can be seen that the C3000 series and C5000 series are basically the same, while the Alder Lake-N Intel Core i3-N305 test scores show a significant improvement.