Pentium 4415U: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The Intel Pentium 4415U is a Kaby Lake dual-core built for the cheapest tier of laptops, and seven catalog models carry it. Measured on the processor side, it does not meet the recommended CPU requirement — or even the minimum — for any of the 69 games the catalog tracks. This guide covers where the chip sits among laptop CPUs, what it realistically offers, and which laptops carry it.

Where the Pentium 4415U sits in 2026

A catalog score of 1.3 places the chip 716th of 741 scored laptop CPUs — the bottom of the table, and the company it keeps says so plainly. The neighborhood is all entry-level silicon: the Pentium SU (1.4), Celeron 3955U (1.4) and Pentium Gold 5405U (1.4) sit just above, while the Pentium 4405U (1.2), Celeron N3450 (1.2) and Celeron N4500 (1.0) sit just below. There is no angle from which this is a performance chip — it was engineered for price, and the ranking reflects that.

What the chip brings

Kaby Lake gives the 4415U two cores and four threads on a 14 nm process, running at a flat 2.3 GHz with no turbo boost above that, inside a 15 W ultrabook-class envelope. Public benchmark records show a Geekbench single-core score of 440, a multi-core score of 918 and a PassMark overall rating of 2,257 — roughly a quarter of what a 2014 Haswell quad-core delivers in multi-core work. That is word-processing, email and browsing territory, nothing more.

Games: CPU-side readiness

The CPU-side verdict is unambiguous: the processor falls below the minimum CPU tier for all 69 cataloged games — including undemanding titles like Minecraft, League of Legends, Dota 2 and Valorant, let alone heavier fare like Cyberpunk 2077 or Elden Ring. Normally this section comes with the caveat that the laptop's GPU and RAM decide actual playability; here the CPU itself is the hard floor. This chip belongs in a laptop bought for office and web work, not gaming in any form.

Laptops that carry it

The seven-model roster is budget hardware across the board. Business machines include Dell's Latitude 3380 ($121) and Latitude 3580 ($214) plus HP's ProBook 440 G4 ($127); the consumer side has Lenovo's IdeaPad 320-17IKB ($199) and IdeaPad 330-15IKB ($187), Dell's Inspiron 5570 ($269) and the Inspiron 13 5378 2-in-1 ($481). The laptops around it typically show a median performance index of just 24 and a photo/design index of 18, though office comfort reaches 75 and energy efficiency 59 — these are light, inexpensive machines for undemanding workloads.

Bottom line

The Pentium 4415U is the definition of a basic-computing chip in 2026: fine for documents, email and video playback in a $120–$480 used laptop, and outclassed by everything above it in the catalog for anything heavier. Its neighbors in the ranking — Celerons and fellow Pentiums — confirm there is no performance case to be made. Buy one of these laptops for price and portability, not for speed, and let the catalog's compare pages show what a step up to a Core i3 or i5 costs.