Core i5-1145G7: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The Intel Core i5-1145G7 is the business face of Tiger Lake — an 11th-generation design from 2020 that brought Intel's 10 nm process and Iris Xe graphics to corporate portables. The catalog matches it to 49 models, and it meets the recommended CPU requirement in 49 of the 69 games the site 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 i5-1145G7 sits in 2026

A catalog score of 58.8 places the chip 179th of 672 scored laptop CPUs — the upper third of a table that spans two decades of silicon. The neighborhood is packed with bigger silicon: the Core i7-13700H (59), Core Ultra 7 165H (58.9) and Core i7-9750H (58.9) just above, the Ryzen 5 5500H (58.5), Ryzen 3 5425U (58.5) and Ryzen 7 250 (58.4) just below. A 4-core, 8-thread part ranking within two-tenths of a point of the much larger i7-13700H is the practical story — strong per-core pace keeps Tiger Lake relevant next to chips with far more cores.

What the chip brings

Tiger Lake is a 4-core, 8-thread design on Intel's 10 nm process, rated at 28 W in its P-class configuration: a 2.6 GHz base and up to 4.4 GHz boost. The integrated Iris Xe G7 graphics carries 80 execution units, and memory support runs dual-channel DDR4 up to 64 GB. Public benchmarks peg the chip at 1,646 single-core and 4,731 multi-core in Geekbench, with a PassMark overall score of 9,178.

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: Battlegrounds, Returnal, Ghost of Tsushima, Black Myth Wukong, The Last of Us Part 1, Dead Space Remake, Diablo 4, Flight Simulator 2020, Grand Theft Auto V, God of War and Civilization 6. Another 18 sit at the minimum tier: Fortnite, Cyberpunk 2077, Red Dead Redemption 2, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Hogwarts Legacy, Elden Ring, Baldur's Gate 3, Battlefield 5, Forza Horizon 5, Alan Wake 2 and Apex Legends 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 this roster is almost entirely integrated-graphics business hardware.

Laptops that carry it

The 49-model roster is a business-fleet snapshot from 2021–2023, and ThinkPads dominate: T14 Gen 2 (Intel), T15 Gen 2, X13 Gen 2 (Intel) and X1 Yoga (Gen 6) at $686, L14 Gen 2 at $345, L15 Gen 2 at $447, with the workstation-adjacent P14s Gen 2 at $901 and P15s Gen 2 at $721. Dell contributes the Latitude 7320 at $321, Latitude 5530 at $475 and Latitude 9420 2-in-1 at $506, and the Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 13.5 covers the premium consumer side at $739. Roster medians describe the fleet honestly: office comfort at 95, portability 70.4, mobility 68 and energy efficiency 79.9 — with a gaming index of 23 and a performance index of 46.9, because these are work machines first.

Bottom line

The Core i5-1145G7 remains one of the smarter used-market buys for office and study work: recommended-tier CPU clearance for 49 of 69 tracked games, a top-third rank among 672 CPUs, and a fleet of ex-corporate ThinkPads and Latitudes priced from $321 to $901. Gaming is possible rather than good on this hardware — verify the GPU and RAM in each listing. For documents, calls, browsing and light creative work, the chip still clears everything a modern office day asks of it.