Core Ultra 5 228V: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The Intel Core Ultra 5 228V is Lunar Lake — Intel's 2024 efficiency-first design with memory on package and an Arc 130V iGPU — carried by 29 catalog models. An 8-core, 17-watt part, it meets the recommended CPU requirement in 36 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 Ultra 5 228V sits in 2026

A catalog score of 52.6 places the chip 243rd of 741 scored laptop CPUs — just above the middle of a table spanning two decades of silicon. The neighborhood: the Core i7-7820HK and Core 5 210H (both 52.7) just above, the Ryzen AI 7 445 (52.6) alongside, and the Core i7-8705G, Core Ultra 7 255U (both 52.3) and Core i5-8279U (52.2) just below. Trading blows with 45-watt H-class parts from a 17 W envelope is the Lunar Lake story — throughput traded deliberately for battery life and quiet.

What the chip brings

Lunar Lake is an 8-core, 8-thread design on a 3 nm-class process rated at 17 W: 2.1 GHz base and up to 4.5 GHz boost. The integrated Arc Graphics 130V is a genuine step up for a thin portable without a discrete GPU. 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 18,210 — remarkable output for the wattage.

Games: CPU-side readiness

Measured purely as a processor, the chip clears the recommended CPU tier for 36 of 69 cataloged games — Dying Light 2, Far Cry 5, Diablo 4, Flight Simulator 2020, Doom Eternal and God of War among them. Another 26 sit at the minimum tier: Counter-Strike 2, PUBG, Metro Exodus, Cyberpunk 2077 and Hogwarts Legacy 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 — the 228V's laptops are integrated-graphics machines, so the Arc 130V sets the real play ceiling.

Laptops that carry it

The 29-model roster is the premium-portable class of 2025–2026. Lenovo runs deep: Yoga 7i Gen 10, Yoga Slim 7 Gen 10 and Yoga Slim 7i Aura convertibles at $1,275, ThinkPad E14 Gen 7, E16 Gen 3 and T14 Gen 6 at $1,144, T16 Gen 4 at $1,284, and the IdeaPad Slim 5i Ultra at $1,400. Acer's Swift Edge 14 AI ($1,232), Aspire 16 AI ($765) and LG's Gram 16 (2025) ($1,232) fill out the field. Roster medians describe the fleet: office comfort at a perfect 100, energy efficiency 92.5, mobility 86 and portability 71.9 — with a gaming index of 19 and a best-GPU median of 0, the honest signature of an all-integrated fleet.

Bottom line

The Core Ultra 5 228V is a battery-life and quiet-comfort pick: 17 W, on-package memory, an iGPU that handles everyday play, and a roster of thin premium machines from $765 to $1,400. CPU-side it covers half the game catalog at recommended settings, but these are not gaming laptops — esports titles and older games suit the Arc 130V, modern blockbusters do not. For all-day work machines, it is one of the most efficient chips in the catalog.