Celeron N3350: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The Intel Celeron N3350 is a 2016 Apollo Lake chip from the absolute bottom of Intel's range, built for the cheapest laptops on the market, and 12 matched models in the catalog carry it. As a processor it meets the recommended CPU tier in 0 of the 69 games the site tracks — and it clears the minimum bar for none of them. This guide covers where the chip sits among laptop CPUs, what it brings, and which laptops run it.

Where the Celeron N3350 sits in 2026

A catalog score of 0.7 places it 728th of 741 scored laptop CPUs — the very bottom of the table. The neighborhood is a roll call of the budget bins: the Pentium N3710 (0.8), Core i3-3120M (0.7) and Core i3-4012Y (0.7) just above, and the Pentium G2020T (0.6), Pentium 3558U (0.6) and Celeron N2940 (0.6) just below. When your closest rivals are Pentiums and a 2013 i3 that itself ranks near the floor, the positioning is unambiguous: this is emergency-budget computing, nothing more.

What the chip brings

Apollo Lake here is a 2-core, 2-thread design on the 14 nm process, rated at just 6 W — a fanless-class part meant for cheap, quiet, plastic-bodied laptops. Clocks run from a 1.1 GHz base up to 2.4 GHz burst, with no hyper-threading to soften the two-core limit. Public benchmarks quantify the position: a Geekbench single-core score of 250, multi-core of 415, and a PassMark overall score of 1,114 — roughly a quarter of a typical mainstream laptop chip of the same era.

Games: CPU-side readiness

Measured purely as a processor, the chip clears the recommended CPU tier for 0 of 69 cataloged games — and the minimum tier for 0 as well. Every tracked title, from Minecraft and League of Legends at the light end to Starfield and Cyberpunk 2077 at the heavy end, asks for more processor than this. These verdicts are CPU-only, but here there is no nuance to add: even with a strong GPU and ample RAM, the processor itself is below every game's floor. Gaming is simply not what these machines are for.

Laptops that carry it

The 12-model roster is the budget shelf itself: Acer Aspire 3 models across 2021–2023 listings at $399–$553, HP's 250 G6 at $531, the Chromebook 14 G5 at $142, Dell's Latitude 3180 at $160, and Lenovo IdeaPad 320 and V110 variants at $132–$156. Laptops built around it typically show a median best-CPU rating of just 12 with a performance index of 28 — the numbers of machines bought for a single purpose, not speed. Energy efficiency at 67.7 and a portability index of 47.8 describe modest, light-duty hardware.

Bottom line

The Celeron N3350 is honest only as a bottom-dollar machine for browsing, documents and video on a tight budget — and even then, most buyers are better served by a used business laptop at the same $130–$160 price point with a far stronger processor. For gaming, creative work or multitasking it is out of the question, as its 728th-place rank and 0-of-69 game coverage state plainly. If one of these laptops is already in hand, it will do light duty; as a purchase in 2026, nearly anything else in the catalog offers more computer for the money.