Core i5-3340M: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The Intel Core i5-3340M is a 2013 Ivy Bridge dual-core from the era when business laptops were built like tanks, and it appears in 8 catalog models — all of them corporate Latitude, ProBook and EliteBook machines now priced like a meal for two. Measured against the catalog's 69 tracked games, it clears the recommended CPU tier for none of them. This guide covers where the chip sits among laptop CPUs, what it offers, and which laptops carry it.

Where the Core i5-3340M sits in 2026

A catalog score of 15.9 places the chip 481st of 741 scored laptop CPUs — the lower third of a table that spans two decades of silicon. The neighborhood within three ranks is almost entirely period-correct: the Core i5-3380M (16.8), Pentium G4560T (16.2) and A8-3520M (15.9) just above, the Core 7 250H (15.9) alongside, and the Core i5-3320M (15.5) and Core m7-6Y75 (15.5) just below. Sitting between its own Ivy Bridge siblings — above the i5-3320M, below the i5-3380M — tells the story plainly: within its generation this was the mainstream middle, and in 2026 it is honest budget-tier hardware.

What the chip brings

Ivy Bridge here means 2 cores and 4 threads on a 22 nm process, running 2.7 GHz base with turbo up to 3.4 GHz in a 35 W standard-mobile envelope — the classic workhorse dual-core of early-2010s corporate fleets. The integrated Intel HD Graphics 4000 handles basic display duties and nothing more. Public benchmarks frame the tier: Geekbench single-core 526, multi-core 1,054, and a PassMark rating of 2,679 — roughly a tenth of a modern mainstream part, which is exactly what thirteen years of progress looks like.

Games: CPU-side readiness

Measured purely as a processor, the chip meets the recommended CPU tier for 0 of 69 cataloged games. Eight undemanding titles list it at their minimum CPU requirement — Minecraft, League of Legends, Dota 2, Valorant, Sims 4, Rainbow Six Siege, Rise of the Tomb Raider and Civilization 6 — while the other 61 games, from Overwatch and Grand Theft Auto V through Cyberpunk 2077 and Starfield, all fall below the minimum CPU bar. These verdicts are CPU-only, but with the processor this far behind, the GPU and RAM discussion is moot: these are not gaming machines in any configuration.

Laptops that carry it

The 8-model roster is entirely business hardware from 2012–2013: Dell's Latitude E6230 ($127), E6330 ($144), E6430 ($101), E5430 ($127) and E6530 ($140), alongside HP's ProBook 6470b ($130), ProBook 6570b ($145) and EliteBook 2570p ($130). Every model is priced between $101 and $145, and most are compact 12–14 inch corporate bodies known for excellent keyboards and sturdy hinges. The laptops around it typically show a median office comfort score of 30, a performance index of 29.6, an energy efficiency index of 39.2 and a portability index of 52.3 — serviceable for text work and browsing, modest on battery economy by modern standards.

Bottom line

The Core i5-3340M suits exactly one buyer in 2026: someone who needs a cheap, durable typing machine — notes, documents, email, light web work — and nothing more. At $101–$145 the Latitude E6430s and ProBook 6570bs of this roster are among the least expensive usable laptops on the site, and their build quality often embarrasses new budget plastic. But the dual-core CPU, HD 4000 graphics and zero recommended-tier game clearances draw a hard line: no gaming, no heavy multitasking, and patience required for modern web pages.