Core i3-370M: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The Intel Core i3-370M is an Arrandale dual-core from 2010 — first-generation Core silicon — and five catalog laptops carry it, HP ProBooks and a Dell Inspiron from the 2010–2013 window. Measured against the modern game catalog it meets the recommended CPU tier in 0 of 69 titles. This guide covers where it ranks, what it still does, and the machines it ships in.

Where the Core i3-370M sits in 2026

A catalog score of 6.5 places the chip 607th of 741 scored laptop CPUs — the bottom fifth of the table, where 2010s budget silicon lives. The neighbors tell the story plainly: the Pentium E5800 (6.7), Atom x5-Z8500 (6.7) and Pentium N3540 (6.7) just above, and the Pentium E6600 (6.5), Core i3-1315U (6.5) and Atom x5-Z8550 (6.4) just below, per the catalog's scoring. Sixteen years of silicon progress separate this chip from the top of the table, and no framing closes that gap.

What the chip brings

Arrandale gives the chip two cores and four threads on a 32 nm process with a 35 W rating, running at a flat 2.4 GHz with no boost clock. Public benchmarks read 314 single-core and 630 multi-core in Geekbench — baseline numbers by any modern measure. In 2010 its claim was bringing hyper-threaded dual-core performance to mainstream prices; in 2026 its only remaining claim is price.

Games: CPU-side readiness

On processor muscle alone, the chip falls below the minimum CPU requirement of all 69 cataloged games — the recommended tier is out of reach everywhere, and even the lightest tracked titles such as Minecraft, Dota 2, Valorant and League of Legends ask for more than this. These verdicts are CPU-only, and actual playability would further depend on the laptop's GPU and RAM — equally dated in this roster. For gaming, this chip is simply not a contender.

Laptops that carry it

The roster covers five machines: HP's ProBook 4720s at $162 and 6450b at $120 from 2013, the ProBook 6550b at $127 and 4520s at $115 from 2010, and Dell's Inspiron 15 N5010 at $90. The laptops built around it typically show a median best CPU score of 9.7 and performance index of 14.5, with office comfort at 40, energy efficiency at 26.3 and mobility at 11. Every figure describes entry-level business hardware of the early 2010s — serviceable bodies, modest internals.

Bottom line

The Core i3-370M is bottom-shelf computing in 2026: web browsing with a few tabs, document work, media playback and little else, inside $90–$162 chassis that were built for office life. It suits buyers who need an emergency machine, a typing station or cheap parts, and nothing more demanding. Any gaming or serious multitasking ambition should move up the catalog's rankings — even the cheapest steps upward buy dramatically more processor.