As a part of its CES 2021 bulletins, Intel formally unveiled a lot of NUCs primarily based on their Tiger Lake SoCs. The NUC11 Performance lineup was lined earlier. This piece appears at one other thrilling NUC11 providing within the fanatic class. As a refresher, Intel created the NUC Enthusiast class again in 2016 with the introduction of the Skull Canyon NUC (NUC6i7KYK). With a 4″ x 5″ motherboard, it had a barely bigger footprint in comparison with the standard NUCs. However, the elevated measurement allowed the incorporation of a 45W TDP processor with elevated graphics flex. The second era Hades Canyon moved to a barely bigger board (5.5″ x 8″), whereas retaining the commercial design of the Skull Canyon NUC. It used the Kaby Lake-G processors with a Kaby Lake processor and an AMD GPU packaged collectively (with a complete TDP funds between 65W and 100W). For the threerd era, Intel has adopted the identical board form-factor, however gone in with the standard method of including a discrete GPU to a SFF system. The NUC11 Enthusiast (codenamed Phantom Canyon) takes the Tiger Lake-U Core i7-1165G7 and provides a NVIDIA RTX 2060 (primarily based on the Turing structure) to create a compact system appropriate for gaming, streaming, and content material creation.
The Phantom Canyon NUC has solely two SKUs – the NUC11PHKi7C is the barebones model, whereas the NUC11PHKi7CAA comes with 2x 8GB DDR4-3200 SODIMMs and an Intel Optane Memory H10 (32GB + 512GB) NVMe drive. The latter additionally comes with Windows 10 Home pre-installed.
The NUC11 Enthusiast sports activities a wealthy set of I/Os. There are two Thunderbolt Four ports (one within the entrance and one within the rear) that additionally carry the show output from the Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 within the TGL-U processor. Two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports and a SDXC UHS-II slot, together with an audio jack and a quad-microphone array spherical out the entrance panel. On the rear, we’ve got an audio output jack (supporting TOSLINK), a single 2.5 Gbps LAN port, 4 USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports, and the show outputs (HDMI 2.0b and mini-DP 1.4a) from the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060.
The desk beneath compares the specs of the flagships within the three generations of fanatic NUCs. Note that the Skull Canyon and Phantom Canyon NUCs have just one barebones model. Only the Hades Canyon had two totally different variations – one with the 65W TDP Core i7-8705G, and one other with the 100W TDP Core i7-8809G. Another facet that’s not talked about right here is that the Phantom Canyon NUC include help for vertical orientation (in contrast to the Hades Canyon NUCs) as proven within the lead picture
| Intel Enthusiast NUCs | ||||
| Model | Phantom Canyon (NUC11PHKi7C) |
Hades Canyon (NUC8i7HVK) |
Skull Canyon (NUC6i7KYK) |
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| CPU | Intel Core i7-1165G7 Tiger Lake-U, 4C/8T 2.8 – 4.7 GHz 28W TDP |
Intel Core i7-8809G Kaby Lake, 4C/8T 3.1 – 4.2 GHz 100W Package TDP |
Intel Core i7-6770HQ Skylake, 4C/8T 2.6 – 3.5 GHz 45W TDP |
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| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 6GB GDDR6 (N18E-G1-B Notebook Class 115W) @ 1.285 GHz (Discrete) Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics (96EU) @ 1.Three GHz (Integrated / On-Die) |
Radeon RX Vega M GH 4GB HBM2 @ 1.19 GHz (Discrete / On-Package) Intel® HD Graphics 630 @ 1.1 GHz (Integrated / On-Die) |
Intel® Iris Pro Graphics 580 @ 1.05 GHz (Integrated / On-Die) 128MB eDRAM |
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| Memory | 2x DDR4-3200 SODIMMs 1.2V, 64GB max. |
2x DDR4-2400+ SODIMMs 1.2V, 32GB max. |
2x DDR4-2133 SODIMMs 1.2V, 32GB max. |
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| Motherboard | 5.5″ x 8″ UCFF | 4″ x 5″ UCFF | ||
| Storage | 1x M.2 22×80/110 (key M) PCIe 3.zero x4 NVMe/AHCI SSD 1x M.2 2280 (key M) SATA3 or PCIe 3.zero x4 NVMe/AHCI SSD |
2x M.2 22×42/80 (key M) SATA3 or PCIe 3.zero x4 NVMe/AHCI SSD | ||
| I/O Ports | 2x Thunderbolt 4 Fast-Charging (entrance + rear) 1x USB 3.2 Gen 2… |
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