Core i5-1240P: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The Intel Core i5-1240P was the volume Alder Lake engine of the 2022 laptop season — 50 catalog models carry it. A 12-core, 16-thread design rated at 28 W with Iris Xe 80EU graphics, it meets the recommended CPU requirement in 35 of the 69 games the catalog tracks. This guide covers where the chip sits among laptop CPUs, what it brings, and which laptops ship with it.

Where the Core i5-1240P sits in 2026

A catalog score of 50 places the chip 267th of 741 scored laptop CPUs — the exact middle of a table spanning two decades of silicon. The neighborhood spans eras: the Ryzen 3 4300U (50.4) and Core i7-6920HQ (50.2) just above, its own H-class sibling Core i5-12450H (50.2) alongside, and the Core 5 320 (50), Ryzen 5 7430U (49.5) and Core i7-7820HQ (49.4) just below. Matching a 45-watt 12450H from a 28-watt package is the chip's whole pitch — big-core counts at ultrabook power, a step the P-series made mainstream in 2022.

What the chip brings

Alder Lake-P is a 12-core, 16-thread design on a 7 nm-class process rated at 28 W: 1.7 GHz base and up to 4.4 GHz boost. The integrated Iris Xe graphics with 80 execution units covers everyday display work and light gaming duty. Memory configuration details were not captured for this chip, so the table above sticks to what the catalog verifiably holds: a PassMark overall score of 15,813.

Games: CPU-side readiness

Measured purely as a processor, the chip clears the recommended CPU tier for 35 of 69 cataloged games — Far Cry 5, Diablo 4, Flight Simulator 2020, Escape from Tarkov, Doom Eternal and God of War among them. Another 27 sit at the minimum tier: Cyberpunk 2077, Hogwarts Legacy, Counter-Strike 2, PUBG, Metro Exodus and Dying Light 2 all list the chip above their minimum but below their recommended CPU requirement. Seven ask for more processor — Starfield, Helldivers 2, Baldur's Gate 3, Elden Ring and Fortnite among them. These verdicts are CPU-only — whether a game actually plays well depends on the laptop's GPU and RAM, and almost every 1240P machine relies on integrated graphics.

Laptops that carry it

The 50-model roster is a deep pool of 2022 business hardware. Dell's Latitude 5530 ($475), 7430 ($424) and 7530 ($403) anchor the corporate end; HP counters with the EliteBook 840 G9 ($415), ProBook 450 G9 ($455) and EliteBook 650 G9 ($476); Lenovo spreads from the ThinkPad E15 Gen 4 ($458) and ThinkBook 15 G4 ($495) up to the X1 Carbon Gen 10 ($566), with the IdeaPad 5 15IAL7 ($469) and Acer Aspire 7 ($553) covering consumers and Dell's Inspiron 16 5620 ($604) the big-screen side. Roster medians describe the fleet: office comfort 95, energy efficiency 86, mobility 63.5 — but a best-GPU-score median of just 3.8, because this chip ships almost exclusively with integrated graphics.

Bottom line

The Core i5-1240P is the practical heart of the 2022 business-laptop wave: twelve cores, proven efficiency and a roster dense with off-lease Latitudes, EliteBooks and ThinkPads in the $400–500 range. It covers half the game catalog at recommended CPU settings — but the machines carrying it were never built for gaming, so treat any play ambitions as a GPU question first. For work, browsing and study, it remains one of the best value picks of its generation.