Intel Braswell Celeron N3050 Pentium N3700 Review Application Performance

The first application test didn’t deliver promising results. When running our Excel 2013 workload, the Pentium N3700 was 18% slower than the J2900 while the Celeron N3150 was 7% slower than the J1800.

The PowerPoint 2013 results are even worse. Here the Pentium N3700 was 24% slower than the J2900, while the Celeron N3150 trailed the J1800 by a 15% margin.

The Pentium N3700 was 9% slower than the J2900 when measuring performance with 7-zip and the Celeron N3150 was 9% slower than the J1800.

When testing with Mozilla Kraken, the Pentium N3700 was 5% slower than the J2900 while the Celeron N3150 was 11% slower than the J1800.

The WinRAR built-in benchmark saw the Pentium N3700 trail the J2900 by an 18% margin, while the Celeron N3150 was 28% behind the J1800.

For an embedded platform the Pentium J2900 impressed us despite taking 76.3 seconds. Having hoped the Braswell SoCs would improve on this time, we were disappointed to find the N3700 taking 93.3 seconds, a time that was slower than the Athlon 5150. Meanwhile, even the most patient users would give up on the Celeron N3150 as it took 200 seconds, worlds slower than AMD’s most affordable APUs.

Interestingly, there was no performance difference between the Braswell and Bay Trail-D SoCs in the InDesign CC test.

Again we see that the Braswell SoCs are a step backwards, this time when testing with After Effects CC. The Pentium N3700 was 10% slower than the J2900, while the N3150 was 11% slower than the J1800.

When testing with Illustrator CC, the Pentium N3700 was 10% slower than the J2900 and the Celeron N3150 was 11% slower than the J1800.