Posted by t-3 11 hours ago
The cheaper and most popular one is N150 [2] which is a replacement for N100 [3]. The newer one boosts a bit higher. The 6-7W TDP in specs is a lie, but these CPUs still have fairly modest consumption working at about 10-20W on average.
There are some low power chips from AMD, but that's mostly NAS territory. Don't see them a whole lot and don't know much about them either.
[0] https://www.techpowerup.com/cpu-specs/?f=codename_=Gracemont
[1] https://www.techpowerup.com/cpu-specs/?f=codename_=Twin%20La...
[2] https://www.techpowerup.com/cpu-specs/processor-n150.c4109
[3] https://www.techpowerup.com/cpu-specs/processor-n100.c3007
From amd side I have 4700u and 5700u, similar idle power (12w), similar cost ($200 with 32gb of ram, now more expensive). A lot more capable then n100, at a cost.
I use a whole bunch of mini pc in my lab, they are so much cheaper to run electricity wise (and cost)
If you’re willing to go up to 60W TDP and $500-1000, then they’re good enough to run recent steam games under linux at 1080p and LLM inference (if you spring for > ~32GB of RAM).
Like many others on this thread, I’ve had good luck with beelink.
Also, ECC ram would be nice.
Ecc ram is rare because very few people are asking for it, and it costs extra
Otherwise, seL4/LionsOS webserver scenario could be tested.