Core Ultra 7 155H: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The Intel Core Ultra 7 155H opened the Meteor Lake era in premium laptops, and with 107 matched models it is the most represented CPU in the catalog. A 16-core design with an integrated Arc graphics tile, it lands at or above the recommended CPU requirement in 49 of the 69 games the catalog 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 Ultra 7 155H sits in 2026

A catalog score of 58 places the chip 186th of 672 scored laptop CPUs — the upper third of a table that spans two decades of silicon. The neighborhood is a cross-section of eras: the Core i7-12700H (58.4), Ryzen 3 5400U (58.3) and Ryzen 5 4600U (58.1) just above, the Core i5-13450HX (58) and Ryzen AI Max PRO 380 (58) alongside, and the Core i5-1135G7 (57.9) just below. Ranking within a point of a 14-core gaming-class i7-12700H while drawing a fraction of its power is the chip's whole pitch — performance density rather than absolute performance.

What the chip brings

Meteor Lake-H is a 16-core, 22-thread design on a 7 nm-class process, rated at 28 W in its H-class configuration: 3.8 GHz base and up to 4.8 GHz on the performance cores. The integrated graphics moved to the Arc architecture with 8 Xe cores clocked up to 2,250 MHz — a genuine step up for a portable without a discrete GPU, and the NPU tile carries the on-device AI workloads of the generation. Memory support and cache details were not captured for this chip, so the table above sticks to what the catalog verifiably holds: a PassMark overall score of 24,578.

Games: CPU-side readiness

Measured purely as a processor, the chip clears the recommended CPU tier for 49 of 69 cataloged games — including Counter-Strike 2, Metro Exodus, PUBG, Ghost of Tsushima, Black Myth Wukong, Returnal and God of War. Another 17 sit at the minimum tier: Cyberpunk 2077, Baldur's Gate 3, Elden Ring, Fortnite and Hogwarts Legacy all list the chip above their minimum but below their recommended CPU requirement. Only Starfield and Helldivers 2 ask for more processor than this. These verdicts are CPU-only — whether a game actually plays well depends on the laptop's GPU and RAM, and most 155H machines ship with integrated or entry-level discrete graphics.

Laptops that carry it

The 107-model roster is a who's-who of 2024–2025 premium portables. Business machines dominate: ThinkPad T14 Gen 5 at $1,144, EliteBook 840 G11 and ProBook 440 G11 at $1,007. The ASUS Zenbook 14 OLED covers the ultrabook angle at $1,232, HP's Pavilion 16 is the budget entry at $483, and the workstation side runs from Precision 3490 at $798 through ZBook Studio 16 G11 at $1,408. Roster medians describe the fleet honestly: office comfort at a perfect 100, energy efficiency 87.9, mobility 74.5 — but a gaming index of 23, because most of these laptops lean on the integrated Arc tile rather than discrete graphics.

Bottom line

The Core Ultra 7 155H is the safe pick for a modern do-everything portable: enough processor for the whole mainstream game catalog at recommended CPU settings, efficiency that suits thin chassis, and the deepest laptop selection on the site — from a $483 Pavilion to $1,400-class workstations. Buyers chasing frame rates should check the GPU on the specific laptop first; buyers chasing a quiet, capable daily machine will find the chip rarely limits them. The catalog's compare pages against the Ultra 7 255H, Ultra 9 185H and the 258V let you price each generational step precisely.