Core i5-1135G7: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The Intel Core i5-1135G7 brought Tiger Lake and the Iris Xe era to the mainstream in 2020, and the catalog matches it to 141 models — a very broad selection on the used market. A 4-core, 15-watt part, it measured purely as a processor meets the recommended CPU requirement in 47 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 i5-1135G7 sits in 2026

A catalog score of 57.9 places the chip 189th of 672 scored laptop CPUs — the upper third of the table, a notable showing for a 2020 quad-core. The neighborhood spans generations: the Core Ultra 7 155H (58), Core i5-13450HX (58) and Ryzen AI Max PRO 380 (58) just above, the Core i5-12600HX (57.9), Ryzen 3 7330U (57.8) and Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U (57.7) just below. Ranking within a tenth of a point of a Core Ultra 7 155H — and alongside HX-class gaming processors — is why this chip kept selling long after its launch year.

What the chip brings

Tiger Lake gives the chip 4 cores and 8 threads on a 10 nm process, with a 1.5 GHz base clock boosting to 4.2 GHz inside a 15 W U-class rating. The integrated GPU is the Iris Xe G7 with 80 execution units — the headline feature of the generation, and the reason many of these laptops shipped without discrete graphics. Memory support runs to 64 GB of DDR4 in dual-channel; bandwidth figures were not captured. Public benchmarks: Geekbench single-core 1,589, multi-core 4,489, and a PassMark overall score of 9,331.

Games: CPU-side readiness

Measured purely as a processor, the chip clears the recommended CPU tier for 47 of 69 cataloged games — Ghost of Tsushima, Black Myth Wukong, Returnal, PUBG: Battlegrounds, Metro Exodus, God of War and Sons of the Forest among them. Another 20 sit at the minimum CPU tier: Cyberpunk 2077, Baldur's Gate 3, Elden Ring, Fortnite, Hogwarts Legacy, Counter-Strike 2 and Alan Wake 2 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 — actual playability depends on the laptop's GPU and RAM, and this fleet ranges from integrated-only ultrabooks to machines with entry-level discrete graphics.

Laptops that carry it

The 141-model roster is the used-market sweet spot: former premium lines at mid-range prices. Dell's Latitude 7320 goes for $321 and the Inspiron 15 3520 for $470, Acer's Aspire 5 (A517-58) for $553; the ultrabook side runs from the Acer Swift 3 and ASUS ZenBook 14X OLED at $840 to the HP Spectre x360 14 at $921, with Lenovo's ThinkPad P14s Gen 2 workstation at $901. Roster medians describe the fleet honestly: office comfort at a perfect 100, energy efficiency 79.9, mobility 71 and a gaming index of 39 — a fleet that skews portable and occasionally game-capable.

Bottom line

The Core i5-1135G7 is the value pick of the used market: for prices starting around $321 in this roster it delivers a processor that still clears the recommended CPU tier for two-thirds of the tracked catalog, inside laptops that were premium when new. It is not the choice for the newest blockbusters — the minimum-tier list says as much. The catalog's compare pages against the Core Ultra 7 155H, Core Ultra 7 255H and Core Ultra 9 185H price the jump to a current-generation chip.