Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (Broadcom BCM2837B0) vs Intel Pentium N3700. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  Broadcom BCM Intel Pentium
• Generation
  3 7
• CPU group
  Broadcom BCM2837B0 Intel Pentium J3000/N3700

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  1.40 GHz 1.60 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 4
• Turbo (1 Core)
  No turbo 2.40 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 4
• Turbo (4 Cores)
  No turbo 2.40 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  Yes No
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• A core
  4x Cortex-A53 --

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  Broadcom VideoCore 5 Intel HD Graphics 405 (16EU)
• GPU frequency
  0.40 GHz 0.40 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 0.70 GHz
• Execution units
  2 16
• Shader
  24 128
• Max. GPU Memory
  1 GB 8 GB
• Max. displays
  2 3
• Generation
  5 8
• DirectX Version
  12
• Technology
  40 nm 14 nm
• Release date
  02/2016 Q2/2015

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No No
• VP8
  Decode Decode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Pentium N3700 and Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (Broadcom BCM2837B0). Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR2 DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM
• Max. Memory
  1024 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  1 2
• PCIe version
  2.0
• PCIe lanes
  4

• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (Broadcom BCM2837B0) and Intel Pentium N3700 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  7 W 6 W
• TDP down
  4 W --

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (Broadcom BCM2837B0) and Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (Broadcom BCM2837B0), virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  None VT-x, VT-x EPT
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2
• L2-Cache
  0.50 MB --
• L3-Cache
  -- 2.00 MB
• Architecture
  Cortex-A15 Braswell
• Technology
  40 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  N/A BGA 1170
• Release date
  02/2016 Q2/2015