Core i7-1355U: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The Intel Core i7-1355U is the 13th-generation Raptor Lake refresh of Intel's premium thin-and-light formula — ten hybrid cores in a 15 W envelope, launched in 2023. The catalog matches it to 103 models, the deepest roster in its tier, and it meets the recommended CPU requirement in 17 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 i7-1355U sits in 2026

A catalog score of 47.7 places the chip 277th of 672 scored laptop CPUs — the middle of a table that spans two decades of silicon. The neighborhood splits by era: the Core i7-7700HQ (49.1), Core i7-6820HQ (47.8) and Core i5-8305G (47.8) just above, while the Core i5-1335U, Core i5-1240U and Core i5-1345U (all 47.7) sit level just below. The only parts outscoring it are i7s of an older generation, and its own generation's i5s match it point for point — within the U-family, the i7 badge buys almost nothing here.

What the chip brings

Raptor Lake-U is a 10-core, 12-thread hybrid design on a 7 nm-class process, rated at 15 W in its U-class configuration: a 1.7 GHz base and up to 5 GHz boost. The integrated Iris Xe G7 graphics carries 96 execution units clocked up to 1,300 MHz. In public benchmarks the chip posts a PassMark overall score of 13,909. Memory support details were not captured for this chip, so the table above sticks to what the catalog verifiably holds.

Games: CPU-side readiness

Measured purely as a processor, the chip clears the recommended CPU tier for 17 of 69 cataloged games — mostly older or well-optimized titles such as Control, Forza Horizon 4, God of War, Grand Theft Auto V, Overwatch, Rainbow Six Siege and Civilization 6. Another 37 sit at the minimum tier: Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Red Dead Redemption 2, Hogwarts Legacy, PUBG: Battlegrounds, Metro Exodus, Diablo 4 and Flight Simulator 2020 all list the chip above their minimum but below their recommended CPU requirement. Fifteen games fall below even that, including Starfield, Helldivers 2, Baldur's Gate 3, Elden Ring, Fortnite, Apex Legends and Counter-Strike 2. These verdicts are CPU-only — whether a game actually plays well depends on the laptop's GPU and RAM, and nearly all 1355U machines lean on integrated graphics.

Laptops that carry it

The 103-model roster runs from 2023 to 2026 and is the widest selection in this tier: the HP OmniBook 3 17” at $1,400 and Samsung Galaxy Book 4 at $1,084 at the top, Dell 15 at $765, Envy x360 15-fe1073cl at $750 and EliteBook 860 G10 at $712 in the middle, and a deep field of Latitudes — 5540 at $524, 5440 at $509, 3450 at $536, 7440 at $532 — plus value entries like Laptop 14-ep0199nr at $422 and 15-fd0182wm at $495. Roster medians describe the fleet honestly: office comfort at a perfect 100, energy efficiency 88, mobility 68.5 and portability 52.65 — while a gaming index of 25 and a performance index of 44.8 mark these as business and everyday machines rather than gaming hardware.

Bottom line

The Core i7-1355U is a safe mainstream choice when selection and price matter more than performance records: 103 listings mean real negotiating room, from $422 value ultrabooks to a $1,400 17-inch machine, with perfect median office comfort across the fleet. It is not a gaming processor — 17 of 69 games at the recommended CPU tier is the honest ceiling — and anyone buying for modern titles should verify the GPU in the specific listing before anything else.