Core i7-1195G7: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The Intel Core i7-1195G7 is a Tiger Lake-UP3 processor from 2021 that sat at the top of Intel's ultraportable line, and seven catalog models carry it. Against the 69 games the catalog tracks it meets the recommended CPU requirement in 49 of them. This guide covers where the chip ranks among laptop CPUs, what four fast cores deliver, and which slim machines carry it.

Where the Core i7-1195G7 sits in 2026

A catalog score of 61.8 places the chip 155th of 737 scored laptop CPUs — the upper fifth of the table. The neighborhood spans classes and generations: the Ryzen 7 5700U and Core i7-12850HX (62 each) and the Xeon E-2186M (61.9) just above, with the Core i5-10500H, Xeon E-2276M and Core i7-13650HX (61.8 each) level with it below. An 8-thread ultraportable part holding rank against HX- and workstation-branded silicon is the Tiger Lake story in one line — punchy clocks in a thin chassis.

What the chip brings

Tiger Lake-UP3 gives it 4 cores and 8 threads on a 10 nm process at a 28 W P-class rating — a high 2.9 GHz base with boosts to 5 GHz — plus Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU integrated. Public benchmarks record a GeekBench single-core score of 1,786 with 5,131 multi-core, and an overall PassMark of 10,353. The figures describe a chip built for responsive everyday speed rather than sustained heavy multithreading.

Games: CPU-side readiness

Measured purely as a processor, the chip clears the recommended CPU tier for 49 of 69 cataloged games. Only Starfield and Helldivers 2 fall below its minimum bar, while eighteen more — from Call of Duty: Warzone and Baldur's Gate 3 down to Counter-Strike 2 and Alan Wake 2 — meet the minimum but not the recommended tier. From Star Wars Jedi Survivor and Sons of the Forest through every lighter title, the pass is a recommended one. These verdicts are CPU-only; the slim machines around it mostly render on integrated graphics, so actual playability trails the processor numbers.

Laptops that carry it

The seven-model roster is premium thin hardware from 2020–2021: Dell's XPS 13 9310 at $650 and Inspiron 14 5410 2-in-1 at $666, Lenovo's Yoga 9i 14 Gen 6 at $566, IdeaPad 5 15ITL05 at $464 and ThinkBook 14 and 15 G3 at $345–$408, and HP's ENVY x360 13 at $666. The laptops around it typically show a median office comfort of 95, a performance index of about 47, energy efficiency of 80 and portability of 71 — top-shelf machines of their years, now at mid-range used prices.

Bottom line

The Core i7-1195G7 is a strong ultraportable processor by the catalog's own measure: ranked 155th of 737 with 49 of 69 games at the recommended CPU tier, it still feels quick for office work, browsing and content consumption, and the $345–$666 slim machines carrying it are good value today. It is not a sustained-load workhorse — four cores are four cores — and gaming rests on the integrated Iris Xe, so buyers with heavier ambitions should step up to H-class silicon. For everyone else, this chip ages gracefully.