The N95 is a significantly cut down Alder Lake called the Alder Lake-N. How was it done?
Your standard 28w P series Alder Lake has 2, 4 or 6 performance cores (P-cores) connected to an 8 core efficiency core complex, essentially Gracemont Atoms) - the i5-1240P that I am using, for example, is 12 cores, 4 Performance and 8 Efficiency (4P8E). The 15w U series variant trims the performance core count to 1 or 2, and in the lowest end U series variants, the efficiency core complex is also halved to 4 - 2P4E for the i3-U series and 1P4E for the soon-to-be-withdrawn Pentium and Celeron variants. The Gracemont Atoms are essentially there to give the Intel big cores a leg up on the efficiency game versus the AMD Zen2s and 3s - Intel's big chips are still not as efficient as their AMD counterparts, and those U series Alder lakes are not really too great perf-wise in low power/low TDP applications versus, say, TDP equivalent Zen2 Renoirs.
Ditch the P-cores and only offer the E-core complex, it becomes the Alder Lake-N series - some has all 8 E-cores (sold as an i3-N, which is weird nomenclature-wise), most only have 4 in various freq steppings. Since it has half the memory channels of a normal Alder Lake, it should support up to 32GB of DDR4 max. On this one SODIMM machine? Possibly lower than that, more likely 16GB, depending on SODIMM memory density. GPU is an Xe LP 32 EU, so it’s roughly 1/2 to 1/3 the performance of its standard 80/96 EU Alder Lake counterparts - AV1 decode is there, but no AV1 encode in its Quicksync media engine, you'll really want to wait for Meteor Lake for that. What does the perf look like overall in the N95? Roughly around the ballpark of a Ryzen 3 2300U from 4 years ago at roughly the same TDP.
Is it worth it? Eeeh, if you are stateside? Maybe - although the GK3 is roughly the same price on evilBay as the Dell Optiplex 3000 thin client with the Pentium N6005 and the performance should be similar, although that one will have dual SODIMM slots and be passively cooled - no “fat” extended variant to take advantage of PCIe like the Wyse 5070, so a bit less desirable. Alternatively, you might be able to score a Lenovo ThinkCentre m715q Gen 2 Tiny with a Ryzen 5 Pro 2400GE at around 130, TDP down it a tad to 15 or 20w using AATU and get more with less - note that I do not recommend this. You really should aim for at least a Renoir in 2023, the Raven Ridge was a solid platform but the Zen2 and 3 APUs overtook it months ago.
