Core i3-1125G4: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The Intel Core i3-1125G4 is a Tiger Lake processor from 2021 that anchored budget and mid-range laptops, and 12 catalog models carry it. Against the 69 games the catalog tracks it meets the recommended CPU requirement in 47 of them — a striking count for a four-core i3. This guide covers where the chip ranks, what it brings, and what its machines cost today.

Where the Core i3-1125G4 sits in 2026

A catalog score of 55.2 places the chip 230th of 737 scored laptop CPUs — the middle third of the table. The neighborhood is notable company for an i3: the Core Ultra 5 135H (56), Core 5 220H (55.9) and Core i7-12650H (55.5) just above, the Ryzen 9 5900HS (55.2), Core i5-13500H (55.1) and Core Ultra 7 365 (55.1) just below. A four-core i3 sitting shoulder to shoulder with H-series i7 and Ryzen 9 silicon on the catalog's normalized scale is a solid mid-table position for 2021 budget silicon.

What the chip brings

Tiger Lake-UP3 gives it 4 cores and 8 threads on a 10 nm process at 15 W, running a 2 GHz base with boosts to 3.7 GHz. Public benchmarks record a Geekbench single-core score of 1,423 with 4,011 multi-core, and an overall PassMark of 9,247 — modest absolute figures for a mid-table catalog position.

Games: CPU-side readiness

Measured purely as a processor, the chip clears the recommended CPU tier for 47 of 69 cataloged games, with only Starfield and Helldivers 2 below its minimum bar. Cyberpunk 2077, Fortnite, Baldur's Gate 3 and Counter-Strike 2 sit at the minimum tier, while Sons of the Forest, Black Myth Wukong, Ghost of Tsushima, The Last of Us Part 1, Metro Exodus and PUBG: Battlegrounds earn recommended verdicts. These verdicts are CPU-only — in the iGPU and entry-GPU machines that carry this chip, the graphics side will speak first.

Laptops that carry it

The 12-model roster is 2019–2021 business and consumer hardware with a Dell flavor: Latitude 5420, 5520, 3520, 3420 and the 5320 2-in-1 at $340–$357, Latitude 3320 at $686, Inspiron 13 5310 at $331, Inspiron 15 5510 at $399, Inspiron 14 5410 2-in-1 at $666 and Inspiron 15 3511 at $321, plus HP's Pavilion x360 14 at $666 and ASUS's VivoBook 15 X513 at $339. The laptops around it typically show a median office comfort of 95, a performance index of about 56, energy efficiency of about 80 and portability of about 66 — serviceable everyday machines at used-market prices.

Bottom line

The Core i3-1125G4 is an honest budget buy in 2026: the catalog places it mid-table, and many of its machines cluster at $321–$399 — the heart of the used-business-laptop value zone. With 47 of 69 games at the recommended CPU tier it reads as gaming-capable on paper, but four cores and entry-class graphics mean light and older titles only. For office, study and browsing on a tight budget it is exactly enough; anyone with room in the budget should step up a tier.