Core i7-11800H: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The Intel Core i7-11800H was Tiger Lake's mainstream H-class workhorse for 2021 laptops — an 8-core design that anchored gaming machines and mobile workstations alike. The catalog matches it to 49 models, and it meets the recommended CPU requirement in 63 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 i7-11800H sits in 2026

A catalog score of 74 places the chip 67th of 672 scored laptop CPUs — the top ten percent of a table that spans two decades of silicon. The neighborhood is tightly packed: the Core Ultra 5 125U (74.3), Ryzen 5 220 (74.1) and Core i7-11850H (74.1) just above, the Ryzen 5 6600H (73.9), Ryzen 5 PRO 6650H (73.9) and Ryzen 7 7735U (73.8) just below. Half a point covers the whole block, and the chip sits level with a newer generation's mainstream H-class parts — the practical takeaway is that this 2021 design still ranks with fresher silicon.

What the chip brings

Tiger Lake-H is an 8-core, 16-thread design built on a 10 nm process and rated at 45 W in its H-class configuration: a 1.9 GHz base clock and up to 4.6 GHz boost. Memory support runs to 128 GB of DDR4-3200 across two channels with 51 GB/s of bandwidth, and the integrated UHD Graphics 750 handles display duties when no discrete GPU is present. In public benchmarks the chip posts 1,896 single-core and 7,789 multi-core in Geekbench, with a PassMark overall score of 19,659.

Games: CPU-side readiness

Measured purely as a processor, the chip clears the recommended CPU tier for 63 of 69 cataloged games — from Cyberpunk 2077, Fortnite, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Red Dead Redemption 2 at the demanding end through Alan Wake 2, Counter-Strike 2, PUBG: Battlegrounds, Metro Exodus and God of War down to the lightest entries. Six games sit at the minimum tier: Starfield, Helldivers 2, Call of Duty: Warzone, Baldur's Gate 3, Hogwarts Legacy and Elden Ring all list the chip above their minimum but below their recommended CPU requirement, and nothing falls below the minimum mark. These verdicts are CPU-only — whether a game actually plays well depends on the laptop's GPU and RAM, and that is where the machines carrying this chip vary most.

Laptops that carry it

The 49-model roster is a 2021-2022 time capsule of Dell's professional and gaming lines. Workstations lead: Precision 3561 at $405, Precision 5560 at $652, Precision 7560 at $705 and Precision 7760 at $700, plus the ThinkPad P17 Gen 2 at $901. Gaming duty falls to the Dell G15 5511 at $750, the Alienware x17 R1 at $1,115 and the Alienware X15 R1 White at $1,087, with the Acer Predator Helios 300 at $737. The XPS 15 9510 ($652), Inspiron 16 7610 ($858) and Vostro 15 7510 ($632) round out the mainstream. Roster medians describe the fleet honestly: office comfort at a perfect 100, a gaming index of 74 and a performance index of 77.5 reflect capable discrete graphics across the board, while mobility at 32.5 and portability at 29.8 say these are substantial machines rather than ultrabooks.

Bottom line

The Core i7-11800H makes a strong case as a used-market anchor: a top-ten-percent rank, recommended-tier CPU readiness for 63 of 69 tracked games, and a roster of workmanlike 2021-2022 machines that starts at $405 for a Precision 3561 workstation. Only the very newest CPU-bound titles ask for more than it has, and none fall below minimum. Buyers who want a do-everything laptop without current-generation pricing should shortlist this chip — then verify the GPU, since that decides how the games actually play.