A volume of 13.9 liters against 8 liters for the NUC 12 Extreme.
A roadmap for the NUCs published last July mentioned a NUC 13 Extreme, code name Raptor Canyon, with a chassis volume of 13.9 liters. Intel presented this imposing machine, more and more distant from the idea that one can have of a NUC, during TwitchCon Day 3.
As you can see from the images above, this NUC 13 Extreme is more like a small gaming PC than a “traditional” NUC in a small form factor. With its volume of 8 liters, even the NUC 12 Extreme Dragon Canyon passes for a small size next to it. The new NUC Extreme will be able to accommodate a graphics card three slots wide and certainly a little longer than its predecessor, already able to take a model of about thirty centimeters. For this first presentation, Intel employees do not disclose the exact specifications of the PC. This carries a Raptor Lake processor unspecified and, ironically, an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3000 graphics card rather than Intel Arc.
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Other smaller NUC 13s in 2023
If the Extreme NUCs seem to be getting bigger and bigger, Intel is not abandoning smaller products. The NUC 12 range includes three models: the NUC 12 Extreme « Dragon Canyon » (12th Gen Alder Lake Core-S and Arc A-series graphics); the NUC 12 Enthusiast « Serpent Canyon » (Alder Lake Core-H & Arc A-Series Mobile) ; enfin, le NUC 12 Pro « Wall Street Canyon » (Alder Lake Core-P). Un kit PC portable NUC X15 « Alder County » (Alder Lake Core-H & Arc A-Series Mobile) completes this catalog. We can expect the company to keep a fairly close structure for the NUC 13.
Intel will reveal the final specifications of this NUC Raptor Canyon in a few weeks.
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Source : Intel