Celeron N3060: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The Intel Celeron N3060 is a 2016 Braswell processor — a fanless-oriented dual-core built for the cheapest laptops on the market. Ten models in the catalog carry it, and it meets the recommended CPU requirement in 0 of the 69 games the catalog tracks. This guide covers where the chip sits among laptop CPUs, what it brings, and which laptops carry it.

Where the Celeron N3060 sits in 2026

A catalog score of 0.38 places the chip 734th of 741 scored laptop CPUs — the very bottom of the table. The neighborhood is entirely legacy and budget silicon: the Core i7-2637M, Core i3-3110M and Core i5-560M sit just above, while the Celeron N2840, N2830 and N2810 sit just below. Scores this low sit in a band where the catalog effectively stops differentiating — every chip here is far below anything usable for modern workloads.

What the chip brings

Braswell gives the N3060 two cores and two threads on a 14 nm process, rated at just 6 W. It clocks 1.6 GHz base with a 2.48 GHz burst — frequencies chosen for battery life and passively cooled chassis, not for speed. The catalog holds a PassMark overall score of 653 for the chip, one of the lowest figures in the entire CPU table. Memory support details were not captured for this chip, so the numbers above are the full verified picture.

Games: CPU-side readiness

Measured purely as a processor, the chip clears the recommended CPU tier for 0 of 69 cataloged games — and like its Celeron siblings, it sits below the minimum CPU requirement for every title on the list, from Cyberpunk 2077 all the way down to Civilization 6 and Minecraft. There is no game column to sort here: the answer is below minimum across the board. These verdicts are CPU-only — the laptop's GPU and RAM decide actual playability — but the conclusion holds regardless: this is not gaming hardware in any sense.

Laptops that carry it

The 10-model roster is pure entry-level: HP's 250 G5 and 250 G6 in both their 2016 budget forms ($127–$152) and later 2018–2019 listings ($468–$531), HP's 15 ac154ng and 15-ra047ur at $101–$135, Dell's Inspiron 15-3552 and Inspiron 11 3168, and Lenovo's IdeaPad 110-15IBR and B50-10. Roster medians describe the fleet honestly: office comfort at 70 — these machines can still open a browser — against a performance index of 6.1, gaming index 23, mobility 24 and an overall laptop score of 14.5.

Bottom line

The Celeron N3060 suits one scenario in 2026: an extremely cheap, low-power machine for light browsing, documents and as a backup device. Zero recommended-tier games and a below-minimum verdict on all 69 titles close the gaming question entirely. The laptops around it were the bottom shelf of 2016 retail, and the roster medians — single-digit performance index — reflect that. Anything more than occasional light duty calls for a newer chip.