Core i3-1115G4: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The Intel Core i3-1115G4 was the entry point of the Tiger Lake generation — a 2-core design that anchored budget laptops from 2020 onward. The catalog matches it to 70 models, and it meets the recommended CPU requirement in none 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 i3-1115G4 sits in 2026

A catalog score of 3.4 places the chip 679th of 741 scored laptop CPUs — deep in the lower third of a table that spans two decades of silicon. The neighbors tell the story: the Core i5-4300Y, Pentium E2160 and Pentium T3400 (all 3.7) just above, the Celeron N3050 (3.3) alongside, and the Core i5-2467M and Atom x6425RE (both 3.2) just below. A neighborhood populated by Pentium, Celeron and Atom badges rather than Core lineups says more than the score itself — this is entry-level territory, and the chip holds its position there only by a tenth of a point over the Atom behind it.

What the chip brings

Tiger Lake-UP3 is a 2-core, 4-thread design on a 10 nm-class process, rated at 15 W in its U-class configuration: a 2.2 GHz base clock and up to 4.1 GHz boost. In public benchmarks it posts 1,574 single-core and 3,061 multi-core in Geekbench, alongside a PassMark overall score of 5,811. Integrated graphics, memory support and cache 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 falls below the minimum CPU tier for all 69 cataloged games — including the lightest entries on the list such as Civilization 6, Minecraft, League of Legends and Rainbow Six Siege. There is not a single recommended-tier or minimum-tier verdict to report. These verdicts are CPU-only — whether a game actually plays well also depends on the laptop's GPU and RAM, but with the processor below every tracked minimum, no GPU choice rescues the CPU side of the equation. This is not a chip to buy for gaming.

Laptops that carry it

The 70-model roster is a 2021–2023 budget catalogue spanning business, ultrabook and convertible classes. The value core is thick: ProBook 430 G8 at $274, ThinkPad L14 Gen 2 at $345, Lenovo V14 G2 at $357, ASUS VivoBook 14 at $399, ThinkPad L15 Gen 2 at $447 and the Inspiron 15 3520 at $470, while the Vostro 15 3520 and HP 250 G9 ask $780 and the ZenBook 13 OLED sits at $739 as the premium outlier. Roster medians describe the fleet honestly: office comfort at a perfect 100 and energy efficiency 81.05 say these are capable office machines, and a fleet gaming index of 46 belongs to the laptops with their varied GPUs — not to this 2-core processor.

Bottom line

The Core i3-1115G4 is an office-and-browsing chip, full stop. It clears nothing on the catalog's game list at even the minimum CPU tier, so buyers with any gaming ambition should step up a tier. What it does offer is a large, inexpensive roster — from $274 to $780 — with fleet office comfort at a perfect 100, which is exactly the workload this chip was built for: a quiet, cheap typing-and-meetings machine, nothing more.