Core i7-11390H: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The Intel Core i7-11390H is a Tiger Lake-H35 quad-core from 2021, carried by five catalog laptops. Measured against the catalog's 69 tracked games, it meets the recommended CPU requirement in 50 of them — a strong showing for a thin-and-light processor of its generation. This guide covers where the chip ranks among laptop CPUs, what it brings to a portable, and which machines were built around it.

Where the Core i7-11390H sits in 2026

A catalog score of 63 places the chip 135th of 741 scored laptop CPUs — comfortably inside the top fifth of the table. The neighborhood is tight: the Core i7-11370H (63.6), Xeon W-10855M (63.3) and Ryzen 7 4800U (63.1) sit just above, while the Core i5-11320H (63), the 16-core gaming-class Core i7-13700HX (62.7) and the Core i5-1230U (62.5) sit just below. Scoring level with a much larger 13700HX is the chip's defining trait: high single-thread clock speed rather than multi-core bulk.

What the chip brings

Tiger Lake-H35 is a 4-core, 8-thread design on Intel's 10 nm process, rated at 28 W: 2.9 GHz base with a boost that reaches 5 GHz — an exceptionally high figure for a quad-core of this era. The integrated graphics is UHD Graphics for 11th Gen, basic but present. Public benchmarks record a single-core score of 1,974, a multi-core score of 5,475 and an overall PassMark of 9,687 — a profile that favours snappy everyday responsiveness over sustained heavy workloads.

Games: CPU-side readiness

Measured purely as a processor, the chip clears the recommended CPU tier for 50 of 69 cataloged games, including Alan Wake 2, Counter-Strike 2, Star Wars Jedi Survivor, Metro Exodus, PUBG, Returnal, Black Myth Wukong and Ghost of Tsushima. Another 17 titles sit at the minimum tier — Cyberpunk 2077, Baldur's Gate 3, Elden Ring and Fortnite among them — and only Starfield and Helldivers 2 ask for more processor than this. These verdicts are CPU-only: actual playability depends on the laptop's GPU and RAM, and several machines carrying this chip pair it with entry-level discrete or integrated graphics.

Laptops that carry it

The five-model roster spans the classes you would expect from 2021: Dell's Vostro 5510 business machine at $434 and Inspiron 13 5310 ultrabook at $331, two Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3 variants at $604 and $590, and HP's premium Spectre x360 16 convertible at $666. The laptops around it typically show a median office comfort of a perfect 100, photo and design capability of 84, energy efficiency of 72, a performance index of about 62 and a gaming index of 47 — a fleet that leans productive rather than gaming-first.

Bottom line

The Core i7-11390H suits a buyer who wants a responsive 2021-era portable for productivity and mainstream CPU loads at used-laptop prices, from roughly $330 to $670 in this catalog. Its 50-of-69 recommended-tier coverage means the processor is rarely the bottleneck in games; the four-core design does show its limits in heavily threaded work, where bigger chips nearby pull ahead. Check the GPU on the specific laptop before gaming ambitions, and treat it as an efficient all-rounder rather than a workstation engine.