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Intel Core Ultra 7 155U
The volume 15W chip of Intel's first Core Ultra generation, sharing the 155H's Meteor Lake tile design but tuned for thinner laptops with a smaller iGPU and lower power ceiling. It keeps the NPU and media engine, aimed at mainstream ultraportables rather than heavy compute work.
Pros
- Keeps the full Meteor Lake NPU, media engine and Thunderbolt 4 support
- 12 cores and 14 threads handle everyday multitasking comfortably
- 15W base power suits thin, cool-running laptop designs
- Supports fast LPDDR5X-7467 and DDR5-5600 memory up to 96GB
Cons
- 4 Xe-core iGPU is far smaller than the 155H's 8-core Arc graphics
- Single- and multi-core Cinebench/Geekbench scores sit below the 155H
- NPU throughput falls short of Microsoft's Copilot+ requirement
Average
Computed from specs & benchmarks via our public methodology.
Full specifications
Everything we track for the Intel Core Ultra 7 155U
General
- Announced
- 2023
- Process
- 7 nm
- Base TDP
- 15 W
- Max TDP
- 57 W
Cores & Clocks
- Cores
- 12
- Performance cores
- 2
- Efficiency cores
- 10
- Threads
- 14
- Base clock
- 1.7 GHz
- Boost clock
- 4.8 GHz
- L3 cache
- 12 MB
Integrated GPU
- iGPU
- Intel Graphics (4 Xe)
- iGPU clock
- 1,950 MHz
Memory
- Memory support
- LPDDR5X-7467 / DDR5-5600
- Max memory
- 96 GB
Benchmarks
- Geekbench 6 (single)
- 2,195Bottom 30%
- Geekbench 6 (multi)
- 8,981Bottom 31%
- Cinebench R23 (single)
- 1,627Bottom 44%
- Cinebench R23 (multi)
- 9,627Bottom 37%
- PassMark
- 16,133Bottom 34%
Quick answers
Is the Intel Core Ultra 7 155U good in 2026?
The Intel Core Ultra 7 155U earns an Inno Score of 52.3/100 (“Average”) based on its specs and benchmark results. The volume 15W chip of Intel's first Core Ultra generation, sharing the 155H's Meteor Lake tile design but tuned for thinner laptops with a smaller iGPU and lower power ceiling. It keeps the NPU and media engine, aimed at mainstream ultraportables rather than heavy compute work.
Does the Intel Core Ultra 7 155U count as "Core i7 or equivalent"?
Its PassMark CPU Mark average is 16,133 (cpubenchmark.net, retrieved Sep 26, 2026), which puts it in Tier B of our CPU tier checker: recent mainstream Core i7 / Ryzen 7, plus older H-series chips. Requirement pages word this differently, so check the exact wording with your department.
What are the key specs of the Intel Core Ultra 7 155U?
Cores: 12 · Threads: 14 · Boost clock: 4.8 GHz · Base TDP: 15 W
What are the closest alternatives to the Intel Core Ultra 7 155U?
Its closest rivals on InnoReviews are Intel Core i7-1360P, Intel Core i7-1355U, Intel Core i7-12700H — open the comparison pages for a spec-by-spec breakdown.
