Core i3-3110M: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The Intel Core i3-3110M is a 2012 Ivy Bridge dual-core that powered the office laptops of the early 2010s, and 12 matched models in the catalog carry it. As a processor it meets the recommended CPU tier in 0 of the 69 games the site tracks — and it clears the minimum bar for none of them. This guide covers where the chip sits among laptop CPUs in 2026, what it brings, and which laptops still run it.

Where the Core i3-3110M sits in 2026

A catalog score of 0.4 places it 733rd of 741 scored laptop CPUs — the bottom ten of the entire table. The neighborhood is the last row of the ranking: the Pentium 3558U, Celeron N2940 and Core i7-2637M (all 0.6) just above, and the Core i5-560M and Celeron N3060 (0.4) alongside with the Celeron N2840 (0.3) just below. Whatever the badge says, fourteen years of development have left this chip in the same band as fanless Celerons — that is its competitive set today.

What the chip brings

Ivy Bridge here is a 2-core, 4-thread design on the 22 nm process, rated at 35 W. It runs at a fixed 2.4 GHz — as an i3 of that generation it has no Turbo Boost, so the base clock is the whole story. Public benchmark data shows a Geekbench single-core score of 391 with 815 multi-core, numbers that place it firmly in the utility-computing class even before considering its age.

Games: CPU-side readiness

Measured purely as a processor, the chip clears the recommended CPU tier for 0 of 69 cataloged games, and the minimum tier for none. Every tracked title — from Minecraft and League of Legends to Grand Theft Auto V, Overwatch and onward to Cyberpunk 2077 and Starfield — asks for more processor than this. The verdicts are CPU-only, but there is nothing left to qualify: modern gaming is not a use case for this silicon.

Laptops that carry it

The 12-model roster is early-2010s office hardware: HP's ProBook 4540s, 4740s, 6570b and 6470b, the EliteBook 2570p and HP 2000 and 250 G1, Lenovo's ThinkPad T430, T530, L430 and the budget G580. Prices run from $92 for an HP 2000 to $191 for the 250 G1. Laptops built around it typically show a median office comfort score of 50, energy efficiency of 40.3 and portability index of 26.5 — heavy, power-hungry machines whose mobility median of 13.5 says everything about carrying them.

Bottom line

The i3-3110M has one remaining niche: the sub-$200 emergency laptop for text editing, email and basic web on a durable business chassis. Even there, its 733rd-place rank and 0-of-69 game coverage make it a last resort rather than a choice — newer chips in adjacent price brackets in this catalog offer dramatically more performance. For gaming, creative work or anything sustained, these machines are past retiring age, and the honest advice is to spend the same money one generation later.