Core i5-1155G7: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The Intel Core i5-1155G7 is the mid-range Tiger Lake chip that mainstream laptops actually shipped with in 2021: four cores, eight threads and the 80-execution-unit Iris Xe iGPU in a 28 W envelope. Nine catalog laptops carry it, mostly consumer and small-business machines, and as a processor it clears the recommended CPU tier in 49 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 i5-1155G7 sits in 2026

A catalog score of 59.8 places the chip 168th of 741 scored laptop CPUs — the top quarter of the table. The neighborhood is full of former flagships: the Core i7-8569U (60.2), Ryzen 7 4700U (60.2) and Ryzen 7 PRO 1700 (59.9) just above, and the Core i9-13900H (59.8), Core i9-8950HK (59.6) and Core i9-12900H (59.5) just below. Three i9 badges in the rearview mirror of a mid-range i5 is the Tiger Lake story in miniature — strong cores, high clocks, and a mid-tier chip that never needed to apologize to the flagships of its era or the one after.

What the chip brings

Tiger Lake-UP3 is a 4-core, 8-thread design on Intel's 10 nm-class process, rated at 28 W in its P-series configuration: a 2.5 GHz base clock that boosts to 4.5 GHz. The integrated GPU is Iris Xe Graphics G7 with 80 execution units — the stronger Tiger Lake iGPU tier and a real step up from basic UHD graphics for light gaming and content playback. Public benchmark records read 1,716 single-core and 4,792 multi-core Geekbench-type scores with a 9,610 PassMark overall; memory configuration 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 meets the recommended CPU tier for 49 of 69 cataloged games — Counter-Strike 2, Star Wars Jedi Survivor, Metro Exodus, PUBG, Black Myth Wukong, Ghost of Tsushima and The Last of Us Part 1 among them. Eighteen titles sit at the minimum tier, including Cyberpunk 2077, Baldur's Gate 3, Elden Ring, Fortnite and Alan Wake 2, and only Starfield and Helldivers 2 ask for more processor than this. These verdicts are CPU-only — actual playability depends on the laptop's GPU and RAM, and this chip's fleet leans heavily on the integrated Iris Xe graphics.

Laptops that carry it

The nine-model roster is consumer territory, 2020–2021: Lenovo's IdeaPad 3i and IdeaPad 3 and 5 lines, the ThinkBook 14 and 15 G3, HP's Pavilion x360 14, Dell's Inspiron 14 5410 2-in-1 and the premium Yoga 9i 14 convertible. Prices run $243–$666. Laptops built around it typically show a median office comfort score of 95, portability at 68.3, mobility at 62 and energy efficiency at 79.9 — clearly a fleet built for portability and everyday work rather than gaming, with a gaming index median of just 44 and no discrete-GPU scores to speak of.

Bottom line

The Core i5-1155G7 is the sensible core of the budget mainstream: nearly 50 recommended-tier game clears on the CPU side, i9-neighborhood ranking, and a roster of light $243–$666 portables that suit students and office work perfectly. It is not a gaming platform — the Iris Xe iGPU caps what renders regardless of what the processor can feed it — and buyers wanting to game should look at the laptops' GPU first, not this chip. For everything else, from browsing to office suites to media, this remains one of the better value propositions in the mid-market used range.