Core i5-2410M: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The Intel Core i5-2410M is a Sandy Bridge dual-core from Intel's second Core generation, released in 2011 — the entry point of that year's mainstream line. The catalog matches it to 9 models, and it meets the recommended CPU requirement in 0 of the 69 games the site tracks. This guide covers where the chip sits among laptop CPUs, what it brings to a portable, and which laptops carry it.

Where the Core i5-2410M sits in 2026

A catalog score of 8 places the chip 531st of 672 scored laptop CPUs — deep in the bottom quarter of a table that spans two decades of silicon. The company it keeps is the tell: the Core i7-620LM (8.1) and A10-9600P (8.1) just above, the Pentium G3250T and Pentium G2130 (both at 8) alongside, and the Celeron 5205U (8) and Pentium J3710 (7.9) just below. When a Core i5 ranks neck-and-neck with Pentiums and a Celeron, the badge tells you less than the benchmark.

What the chip brings

Sandy Bridge here is a 2-core, 4-thread design on a 32 nm process, rated at 35 W: a 2.3 GHz base clock and up to 2.9 GHz boost. Memory support details were not captured for this chip, and the integrated graphics are Intel's HD Graphics 3000. In public benchmarks the chip posts 429 single-core and 850 multi-core in Geekbench, with a PassMark overall score of 1,957.

Games: CPU-side readiness

Measured purely as a processor, the chip meets the recommended CPU tier for 0 of the 69 cataloged games — and it does not clear the minimum CPU tier for any of them either. Everything from Minecraft and League of Legends through Counter-Strike 2, Fortnite and Cyberpunk 2077 up to Starfield lists this processor below its minimum CPU requirement. These verdicts are CPU-only — whether a game actually plays well depends on the laptop's GPU and RAM — but here the CPU verdict alone closes the door on the tracked catalog.

Laptops that carry it

The 9-model roster is all 2011 business stock: Dell's Latitude E6420 at $140 and E5520 at $160, HP's ProBook 6560b, 4330s, 6460b, 4730s and 4530s from $115 to $182, and Lenovo's ThinkPad T420 at $95 plus the ThinkPad Edge E520 at $132 — used-market listing prices throughout. Roster medians describe the laptops, not the chip: office comfort at 45 and a performance index of 23.78 keep these in basic-duty territory, mobility at 17 and portability at 30.1 mark them as desk machines, and a gaming index of 71 reflects the discrete graphics a few listings carried rather than the processor.

Bottom line

The Core i5-2410M is the definition of a floor-price utility chip in 2026: fine for documents, browsing and streaming, and a sensible fit for a first laptop or a cheap spare. It cannot meet any tracked game's minimum CPU tier, so gaming is off the table no matter which graphics a listing pairs it with, and heavier multitasking will strain two 2011 cores quickly. At the $95–182 listing prices the value is the durable chassis; anything more demanding justifies stepping further up the table.