Core i7-10810U: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The Intel Core i7-10810U is a tenth-generation Comet Lake processor from 2020, a six-core low-voltage chip that sat near the top of Intel's thin-and-light lineup. Eleven models in the catalog carry it, and it meets the recommended CPU requirement in just 1 of the 69 games the catalog tracks. This guide covers where the chip sits among laptop CPUs, what it brings, and which laptops carry it.

Where the Core i7-10810U sits in 2026

A catalog score of 37.7 places the chip 339th of 741 scored laptop CPUs — the middle of the table. The neighborhood is crowded with mid-tier mobile parts: the Ryzen 5 3500U, Core i7-1065G7 and Core i7-7560U sit just above, the Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U, Ryzen 7 3780U and Ryzen 7 PRO 2700U just below. All six neighbors are 15 W-class chips, which is exactly right: this i7 was built for the same thin-business-laptop bracket they were.

What the chip brings

Comet Lake gives the i7-10810U six cores and twelve threads on a 14 nm process — the most cores Intel shipped in a 15 W chip at the time. The clock range is wide: a very low 1.1 GHz base for efficiency, with up to 4.9 GHz turbo on a single core. Graphics come from the basic Intel UHD integrated solution, not the Iris G7 of its siblings, and the catalog holds a PassMark overall score of 8,014 for the chip.

Games: CPU-side readiness

Measured purely as a processor, the chip clears the recommended CPU tier for only 1 of 69 cataloged games — Civilization 6. Some 45 titles sit at the minimum tier, including Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher 3, Red Dead Redemption 2, Returnal, Resident Evil Village and Doom Eternal, while 23 of the heaviest games — Starfield, Helldivers 2, Fortnite, Counter-Strike 2, Elden Ring — sit below minimum. These verdicts are CPU-only — the laptop's GPU and RAM decide actual playability — and with integrated graphics typical here, gaming was never the design goal.

Laptops that carry it

The 11-model roster is a business-fleet lineup: Lenovo's ThinkPad T14, T14s, T15 and X1 Carbon Gen 8, the ThinkPad X13 Yoga convertibles, plus Dell's Precision 3550, Latitude 5310 2-in-1 and Latitude 9410 2-in-1, with the ThinkPad P15s Gen 1 as the entry workstation. Most date from 2019–2021, and listed prices run from $302 to $529. Roster medians describe the fleet honestly: office comfort at 75, energy efficiency 70.6, portability 72.8 and mobility 64 — strong travel credentials — against a gaming index of just 19, with the median machine showing no discrete GPU at all.

Bottom line

The Core i7-10810U suits a buyer who wants a light, quiet business machine for office work, video calls and all-day battery — the ThinkPad and Latitude shells around it deliver exactly that at mid-two-figure and low-three-figure prices. It is not a gaming processor: one recommended-tier game out of 69 says as much. For anything GPU-adjacent — editing, modeling, modern games — look at H-class chips in heavier chassis instead.