Pentium J2900 CPU Review

Conclusions

Our tests have shown some very interesting results. First, there are applications where a four-core processor has a clear advantage over dual-core ones, and other applications where a higher clock is desirable. Compared to the competitors we included in this test, the Pentium J2900 has both advantages, and it is faster than all of them in all tests based exclusively on CPU power.

The only tests were the A4-5000 was faster than the Pentium J2900 were the ones related to gaming, where GPU power is more important than CPU brute force. However, our results clearly show that none of the SoC CPUs we included in this review will run “heavy” games with a decent framerate. Therefore, higher gaming performance is probably not in the mind of someone looking for a CPU in this category. This may lead us to conclude the Pentium J2900 CPU is a better choice for its far superior general processing power.

But the point is that, in this market, cost is a more important variable than performance, and the motherboards with a Pentium J2900 CPU are significantly more expensive than similar boards with the Celeron J1800 processors, for example.

This means that, if you need to build an inexpensive computer for simple office tasks, the Celeron J1800 and the A4-5000 have a better cost/benefit ratio. And for performance demanding applications, none of those CPUs are recommended.