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Intel Core Ultra 7 255H
Arrow Lake-H's upper-mid 16-core chip pairs 6 Lion Cove P-cores and 10 Skymont/Crestmont E-cores with a 24MB cache and Arc 140T graphics, aimed at demanding laptops that need both CPU muscle and light gaming performance.
Pros
- 16 cores (6 P-cores, 8 E-cores, 2 low-power E-cores) give strong multi-threaded throughput
- Lion Cove P-cores boost up to 5.1GHz for fast single-core response
- Arc 140T iGPU (8 Xe cores, up to 2.25GHz) runs modern games at 1080p on low-to-medium settings
- Supports fast LPDDR5X-8400 or DDR5-6400 memory, up to 128GB
- 24MB of L3 cache helps with multitasking and content-creation workloads
Cons
- No Hyper-Threading, so thread count matches core count instead of doubling
- 13 TOPS NPU misses the 40 TOPS Copilot+ PC certification threshold
- TDP can reach 115W under sustained turbo, requiring larger cooling
Good
Computed from specs & benchmarks via our public methodology.
Full specifications
Everything we track for the Intel Core Ultra 7 255H
General
- Announced
- 2025
- Process
- 3 nm
- Base TDP
- 28 W
- Max TDP
- 115 W
Cores & Clocks
- Cores
- 16
- Performance cores
- 6
- Efficiency cores
- 10
- Threads
- 16
- Base clock
- 2 GHz
- Boost clock
- 5.1 GHz
- L3 cache
- 24 MB
Integrated GPU
- iGPU
- Intel Arc 140T
- iGPU clock
- 2,250 MHz
Memory
- Memory support
- LPDDR5X-8400 / DDR5-6400
- Max memory
- 128 GB
Benchmarks
- Geekbench 6 (single)
- 2,851Top 25%
- Geekbench 6 (multi)
- 15,362Top 20%
- Cinebench R23 (single)
- 2,055Top 12%
- Cinebench R23 (multi)
- 18,624Top 25%
- PassMark
- 30,782Top 25%
- PassMark (single thread)
- 4,310Top 12%
- 3DMark Time Spy Graphics (iGPU)
- 3,719Top 9%
Devices with the Intel Core Ultra 7 255H
16 devices in our catalog use this chip
Quick answers
Is the Intel Core Ultra 7 255H good in 2026?
The Intel Core Ultra 7 255H earns an Inno Score of 65.3/100 (“Good”) based on its specs and benchmark results. Arrow Lake-H's upper-mid 16-core chip pairs 6 Lion Cove P-cores and 10 Skymont/Crestmont E-cores with a 24MB cache and Arc 140T graphics, aimed at demanding laptops that need both CPU muscle and light gaming performance.
Does the Intel Core Ultra 7 255H count as "Core i7 or equivalent"?
Its PassMark CPU Mark average is 30,782 (cpubenchmark.net, retrieved Sep 26–Oct 8, 2026), which puts it in Tier A of our CPU tier checker: current Core i7 H / Core Ultra 7 / Ryzen 7 class and above. Requirement pages word this differently, so check the exact wording with your department.
Which devices use the Intel Core Ultra 7 255H?
16 devices in our catalog use the Intel Core Ultra 7 255H: Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i Aura Edition Gen 10 (16IAH10), REDMI Book Pro 16 (2025), Lenovo Yoga Book 9i Gen 10, Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 8, MSI Summit 16 AI Evo A2HM, and more.
What are the key specs of the Intel Core Ultra 7 255H?
Cores: 16 · Threads: 16 · Boost clock: 5.1 GHz · Base TDP: 28 W
What are the closest alternatives to the Intel Core Ultra 7 255H?
Its closest rivals on InnoReviews are AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 375, Intel Core Ultra 5 235HX, Intel Core Ultra X9 378H — open the comparison pages for a spec-by-spec breakdown.
