Core i5-1345U: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The Intel Core i5-1345U is a 2023 Raptor Lake U-series part built for long-battery business laptops — 40 catalog models carry it. A 10-core, 15-watt design with Iris Xe G7 80EU graphics, it meets the recommended CPU requirement in 17 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 i5-1345U sits in 2026

A catalog score of 47.7 places the chip 278th of 741 scored laptop CPUs — just below the middle of a table spanning two decades of silicon. The neighborhood is a family reunion of its own generation: the Core i7-1355U, i5-1335U and i5-1240U (all 47.7) within a tenth around it, the i7-1365U (47.4) just below, and the 2016-era Core i7-6700HQ (47.2) propping up the list. Sitting level with a seven-year-older 45-watt gaming chip while drawing 15 W is the honest summary of what a decade of efficiency work buys.

What the chip brings

Raptor Lake-U is a 10-core, 12-thread design on a 7 nm-class process rated at 15 W: 1.6 GHz base and up to 4.7 GHz boost. The integrated Iris Xe G7 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 13,888.

Games: CPU-side readiness

Measured purely as a processor, the chip clears the recommended CPU tier for 17 of 69 cataloged games — Control, Forza Horizon 4, God of War, Horizon Zero Dawn, Grand Theft Auto V and Rainbow Six Siege among them. A heavy band of 37 titles sits at the minimum tier: Counter-Strike 2, PUBG, Fortnite, Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3 all list the chip above their minimum but below their recommended CPU requirement. Fifteen modern blockbusters — Starfield, Baldur's Gate 3, Elden Ring, The Last of Us Part 1, Black Myth Wukong — ask for more processor. These verdicts are CPU-only — whether a game actually plays well depends on the laptop's GPU and RAM, and 1345U machines are office hardware first.

Laptops that carry it

The 40-model roster is a 2023–2024 business-laptop catalog. Dell's Latitude line runs deep: 5440 ($509), 3450 ($536), 5540 ($524), 7440 ($532) and 5450 ($569). HP counters with the EliteBook 840 G10 ($471), ProBook 450 G10 ($609), EliteBook 860 G10 ($712), the Elite x360 830 G10 convertible ($470) and the premium Dragonfly G4 ($846), plus the ZBook Firefly 16 G10 workstation ($772). Lenovo's ThinkPad L14 Gen 4 covers the value end at $447. Roster medians describe the fleet: office comfort at a perfect 100, energy efficiency 88, mobility 76.5 and portability 70.55 — but a best-GPU-score median of just 14, because these machines ride integrated graphics.

Bottom line

The Core i5-1345U is a battery-life chip, not a performance chip: it powers a deep bench of 2023–24 corporate laptops that now trade in the $450–600 range. For office work, study and browsing it is more than enough, and the roster's mobility scores show why it existed. Gamers should look elsewhere — it clears only a quarter of the catalog at recommended CPU settings, and the laptops carrying it rarely pair it with serious graphics.