Core i7-4510U: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The Intel Core i7-4510U is a Haswell dual-core from 2014, the 15 W engine inside that generation's mainstream laptops, and five catalog models carry it. Against the 69 games the catalog tracks it meets the recommended CPU requirement in none of them, though it does clear the minimum bar for a set of lighter titles. This guide covers where the chip ranks among laptop CPUs, what it brings, and which used laptops you will find it in.

Where the Core i7-4510U sits in 2026

A catalog score of 26.7 places the chip 405th of 741 scored laptop CPUs — just below the middle of the table. The neighborhood is wall-to-wall 2013–2015 silicon: the Core i7-4600U (26.9), Core i7-3820QM (26.8) and Pentium G5600 (26.8) just above, the Core i7-6500U (26.7), Core i7-4650U (26.5) and Pentium Gold G5500 (26.5) just below. Note the company it keeps: despite the i7 badge, this is a dual-core part that ranks alongside Pentiums of adjacent generations — a badge earned by 2014 standards, not today's.

What the chip brings

Haswell-U pairs 2 cores with 4 threads on a 22 nm process at just 15 W: 2.0 GHz base and up to 3.1 GHz on boost, with Intel HD Graphics 5000 as the integrated GPU. Public benchmarks record a single-core score of 878, a multi-core score of 1,646 and an overall PassMark of 2,640 — roughly a quarter of a modern entry-level processor's throughput. That was the standard recipe for thin 2014 laptops: quiet, efficient, and adequate for the office software of its day.

Games: CPU-side readiness

Measured purely as a processor, the chip clears the recommended CPU tier for 0 of 69 cataloged games. It does sit above the minimum tier for 26 of them — Minecraft, Valorant, Dota 2, League of Legends, The Sims 4, Doom Eternal, God of War and Horizon Zero Dawn among others — while modern releases like Cyberpunk 2077, Elden Ring, Fortnite and Counter-Strike 2 land below their minimum CPU requirement. These verdicts are CPU-only; actual playability depends on the laptop's GPU and RAM, and the integrated HD 5000 graphics of this era limits things further.

Laptops that carry it

The roster is mainstream 2014 hardware: HP's ProBook 450 G1 business laptop at $152 and the Envy 17 ultrabook at $220, Lenovo's G50-70 at $179, and Dell's Inspiron 15 3542 at $123, alongside the Inspiron 17 5748. The laptops around it typically show a median gaming index of 59 — flattered by low expectations — a performance index of about 30, office comfort of 30, energy efficiency of about 53 and a mobility index of just 16. In short: desktop-replacement bodies with an efficient but modest engine.

Bottom line

The Core i7-4510U is a budget-tier processor in 2026, suited to light used-laptop duty: browsing, office documents, streaming video, older or lightweight games at minimum settings. Ranked 405th of 741 with zero games at the recommended tier, it should be priced and judged accordingly — the $120–$220 machines carrying it are student and backup-laptop territory. Buyers wanting comfortable modern gaming or snappy multitasking should look further up the table.