Pentium Gold 4415U: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The Intel Pentium Gold 4415U is a Kaby Lake dual-core from 2017 that powered budget laptops of the late 2010s, and seven catalog models carry it. Against the 69 games the catalog tracks it meets the recommended CPU requirement in none of them — every title sits below its minimum bar. This guide covers where the chip ranks among laptop CPUs, what it offers, and what to expect from the cheap machines built around it.

Where the Pentium Gold 4415U sits in 2026

A catalog score of 1.9 places the chip 703rd of 741 scored laptop CPUs — inside the bottom forty of the entire table. The neighborhood is pure entry-level: the Celeron 3965U, Celeron N5100 and Pentium G840 (1.9 each) level with it, with the Pentium G860 (1.7), Pentium Gold 6405U (1.6) and the 2009-era Core i7-720QM (1.6) just below. Ranking alongside a decade-old flagship quad-core says little in its favor — this is bottom-tier processing power by any modern measure.

What the chip brings

Kaby Lake-U gives it 2 cores and 4 threads on a 14 nm process at 15 W, running at a 2.3 GHz base rating with no meaningful boost above that. The only public benchmark recorded is an overall PassMark of 3,229 — a figure that positions it firmly in the entry class of its own generation, let alone against today's chips. The "Gold" branding marked it as the top of Intel's Pentium line, but that still meant the tier below Core i3.

Games: CPU-side readiness

Measured purely as a processor, the chip clears the recommended CPU tier for 0 of 69 cataloged games, and it lands below the minimum tier for all of them — including the lightest entries on the list like Minecraft, Dota 2 and League of Legends. There is no cataloged game for which this processor meets even the minimum requirement. These verdicts are CPU-only, but with the GPU and RAM of budget 2016–2019 hardware alongside, nothing in this class rescues the picture.

Laptops that carry it

The seven-model roster is budget consumer and business hardware from 2016–2019: Lenovo's IdeaPad 320-17IKB at $199 and IdeaPad 330-15IKB at $187, Dell's Inspiron 5570 at $269 and Inspiron 13 5378 2-in-1 convertible at $481, plus business machines in HP's ProBook 440 G4 at $127 and Dell's Latitude 3380 at $121 and Latitude 3580 at $214. The laptops around it typically show a median office comfort of 75, a performance index of about 24, energy efficiency of about 59 and portability of about 42 — serviceable everyday machines that never pretended to performance.

Bottom line

The Pentium Gold 4415U is bottom-tier silicon in 2026, appropriate only for the cheapest kind of used-laptop duty: one or two apps at a time, browsing, documents and video. Ranked 703rd of 741 with zero of 69 games cleared, it should anchor a machine bought for price alone — the $121–$199 business models in this roster fit that brief exactly. Any use beyond light office work calls for a step up the table; the extra money buys a disproportionately better experience from here.