Core Ultra 7 155U: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The Intel Core Ultra 7 155U is the thin-and-light Meteor Lake — the badge says Ultra 7, the 15 W U-class envelope says all-day portable, and 53 catalog models carry it. It meets the recommended CPU requirement in 35 of the 69 games the catalog tracks — a split that tells the design's story honestly. This guide covers where it sits among laptop CPUs, what it brings, and which laptops carry it.

Where the Core Ultra 7 155U sits in 2026

A catalog score of 50.5 places the chip 263rd of 672 scored laptop CPUs — mid-table. The neighborhood is a time capsule of H-class silicon: the Core i5-8300H (50.9), Xeon E3-1505M v5 (50.8) and Core i7-1260P (50.8) just above, the Ryzen 3 4300U (50.4), Core i7-6920HQ (50.2) and Core i5-12450H (50.2) just below. Matching 2016–2022 45 W-class chips from a 15 W envelope is the honest framing: throughput of an older performance era, at a fraction of the power — but mid-table is mid-table, and the badge overstates the rank.

What the chip brings

Meteor Lake-P's U-class cut: 12 cores and 14 threads on a 7 nm-class process at 15 W, 1.7 GHz base and up to 4.8 GHz boost. The 4-core integrated graphics tile clocks to 1,950 MHz for display duty. The catalog holds a PassMark overall score of 16,193 for this chip. Memory details were not captured — the table above carries what is verifiable.

Games: CPU-side readiness

As a processor, the chip clears the recommended CPU tier for 35 of 69 cataloged games — Doom Eternal, Death Stranding, Diablo 4, Flight Simulator 2020, Escape from Tarkov and the lighter modern catalog. Twenty-seven more sit at the minimum tier, Hogwarts Legacy and Cyberpunk 2077 among them. The seven games it falls below even the minimum CPU requirement for are the heaviest asks: Starfield, Helldivers 2, Call of Duty: Warzone, Baldur's Gate 3, Elden Ring, Apex Legends and Fortnite. These verdicts are CPU-only — but with this fleet running integrated graphics, the processor and the GPU agree: this is a work machine, not a gaming one.

Laptops that carry it

The 53-model roster is business-fleet country: Latitude 7450 at $519 and 5450 at $569, Latitude 5550 at $772, EliteBook 830/840 G11 at $1,007, ThinkPad T14 Gen 5 at $1,144 and P14s Gen 5 at $1,760, with the Pavilion 16 at $700 and Aspire Vero 16 at $765 on the value side. Roster medians describe exactly what the chip aims at: office comfort a perfect 100, energy efficiency 91.9, mobility 80.5 — and gaming index 19 with a zero best-GPU median.

Bottom line

The Core Ultra 7 155U is a fleet chip, not an enthusiast one: mid-table rank, recommended-tier CPU clearance for half the game catalog and below-minimum for the seven heaviest — a profile that fits email, documents and browser work for a full workday on a charge. The Latitude-to-ThinkPad roster from $519 is where it makes sense. Buyers wanting current-generation performance should compare against the Ultra 7 155H — one letter, a different class of chip; the compare pages quantify the gap.