13th Gen Intel Core i3 1315U | Review

Launched in January of 2023, Intel Core i3 1315U is a budget-friendly processor for thin and light laptops as part of Intel’s 13th Gen Raptor-Lake-U lineup. Powered by 2 performance cores with 4 threads and 4 efficiency cores with 4 threads. The performance core has a base clock of 1.2 GHz and a boost clock of 4.5 GHz the efficiency cores, on the other hand, have a base clock of 0.9GHz and a boost clock of 3.3GHz.

How is 13th Gen Intel Core i3 1315U in terms of performance (Good or Bad)

The 13th Gen Intel Core i3 1315U can easily handle your day-to-day tasks such as Browsing, Streaming, and office productivity software the 6-core 13th Gen i3 CPU should be able to handle back photo and video editing workloads. In terms of raw performance, it is slightly faster than the 12th gen intel core i3 1215U and AMD Ryzen 3 7320U.

How is 13th Gen Intel Core i3 1315U for Gaming

13th Gen Intel Core i3 1315U is powered by Intel UHD Graphics 64EUs which has a performance comparable to that of AMD’s Vega 8 Graphics and should be able to play games such as GTA 5 at 60 FPS 1366×768 resolution mid settings.

Architecture and other features

Intel Core i3 1315U is based on the 10 nm architecture with the 13th Gen CPUs. The TDP of this Chip as specified by Intel is 15 watts and can go up to 55 Watts. It also supports new faster DDR5 memory of up to  5200MHz and low-power LPDDR5 5200MHz while also supporting DDR4 memory of up to 3200MHz and low-power LPDDR4X 4267MHz. The iGPU here is Intel UHD Graphics 64EUs.