Intel’s 13th-gen NUC isn’t as weeny as its predecessors

Intel has teased its upcoming NUC 13 Excessive PC, the most recent addition to the NUC (Subsequent Unit of Computing) household of small-form-factor computer systems and barebone pc kits. The PC codenamed Raptor Canyon was revealed at TwitchCon this previous weekend, as reported by VideoCardz, and notably sports activities a considerably larger design than its predecessor to help bigger graphics playing cards.

A teardown of the upcoming PC was carried out on the conference flooring, giving us a sign of its bigger measurement in comparison with earlier fashions inside Intel’s NUC vary. It confirmed that Raptor Canyon can help as much as a full desktop Core i9 processor and as much as 64GB of DDR5 reminiscence. 2.5 and 3-slot graphics playing cards are additionally supported, with an unnamed Nvidia GeForce RTX 30 collection being put in in the course of the presentation. There’s no point out that the system can help Nvidia’s not too long ago launched RTX 40 collection, which brings a much chunkier design than earlier generational GPU releases.

Intel has elevated the scale of the next-gen NUC Excessive from the 8L chassis on the earlier generational launch to a 13.9L chassis for the Thirteenth-gen NUC gaming PC. This larger-capacity PC doesn’t spell the tip for Intel’s usually minuscule type issue nevertheless, because the Excessive collection is designed as a full-desktop substitute system, and fewer highly effective fashions such because the NUC 12 Fanatic and NUC 12 Professional collection are nonetheless rocking the acquainted pint-sized design.

At TwitchCon Intel mentioned it could present extra detailed info for the NUC 13 Excessive in a “couple weeks.” Forward of that, Mark Walton, EMEA Comms Supervisor at Intel confirmed to The Verge that Raptor Canyon helps Thirteenth Gen Intel Core processors at 125W and triple-slot 12-inch graphics playing cards, in addition to dual-channel DDR5 reminiscence and Intel Killer Wi-Fi 6E. Intel expects the primary models to be obtainable within the fourth quarter of 2022, with extra rolling out via early 2023. As such, we are able to seemingly count on full specs, pricing, and launch date earlier than the tip of the 12 months.