Intel is formally taking the wraps off the primary member of their Raptor Lake-based NUC13 household immediately. The NUC13 Excessive (just like the three earlier Excessive NUCs) caters to the avid gamers and content material creators requiring forefront efficiency and high-end discrete GPU assist. Not like the mainstream NUCs which have been constantly sustaining an ultra-compact form-factor profile, the Excessive household has slowly grown in measurement to accommodate flagship CPUs and discrete GPUs. These techniques combine a motherboard in a PCIe add-in card type issue (the Compute Factor) and a baseboard that gives further performance with PCIe slots and different I/O options. As a refresher, Intel created the NUC Excessive class with the introduction of the Ghost Canyon NUC household in 2019. This was adopted by the Tiger Lake-based Beast Canyon NUC in 2021 and the Alder Lake-based Dragon Canyon NUC earlier this 12 months. The newest member of this household is immediately’s introduction – the Raptor Canyon NUC primarily based on the Shrike Bay Compute Factor.
The NUC Excessive household has grown in bodily footprint with every technology, and the NUC13 Excessive is Intel’s greatest one but. Coming in at 317mm x 129mm x 337mm (13.7L), that is extra of a conventional tower desktop than the NUCs that the market has grown accustomed to. Nonetheless, this measurement has allowed Intel to combine flagship parts. The Shrike Bay Compute Factor helps socketed LGA 1700 processors with a PL1 of 150W and PL2 of 250W (tau of 28s). The vertical centering of the baseboard throughout the case permits loads of isolation between the Compute Factor on the highest and the discrete GPU on the underside. Triple-slot dGPUs as much as 12.5″ in size are supported.
The NUC13 Excessive Package is available in three flavors, whereas the Shrike Bay Compute Factor itself has six variations. These enable system integrators and OEMs to supply all kinds of techniques focusing on totally different market segments. The desk under summarizes the important thing variations between the three NUC13 Excessive kits.
| Intel NUC13 Excessive Kits (Raptor Canyon) | ||||
| Mannequin | NUC13RNGi9 | NUC13RNGi7 | NUC13RNGi5 | |
| CPU | Intel Core i9-13900K Raptor Lake, 8P + 16E / 32T 5.8 GHz (Turbo) / 5.4 GHz (P) / 4.3 GHz (E) 125W TDP (As much as 253W) |
Intel Core i7-13700K Raptor Lake, 8P + 8E / 24T 5.4 GHz (Turbo) / 5.3 GHz (P) / 4.2 GHz (E) 125W TDP (As much as 253W) |
Intel Core i5-13600K Raptor Lake, 6P + 8E / 20T 5.1 GHz (Turbo) / 5.1 GHz (P) / 3.9 GHz (E) 125W TDP (As much as 181W) |
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| GPU | Intel UHD Graphics 770 (300 MHz – 1.65 GHz) | Intel UHD Graphics 770 (300 MHz – 1.60 GHz) | Intel UHD Graphics 770 (300 MHz – 1.50 GHz) | |
| Reminiscence | 2x DDR5-5600 SODIMMs (as much as 64GB) |
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| Motherboard (Compute Factor) | 295.3mm x 136.5mm x 46.1mm (Customized) | |||
| Storage | 1x CPU-attached PCIe 4.0 x4 M.2 2280 1x PCH-attached PCIe 4.0 x4 M.2 2242 / 2280 1x PCH-attached PCIe 4.0 x4 / SATA M.2 2242 / 2280 2x SATA 6 Gbps (on baseboard) |
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| I/O Ports | 2x USB4 / Thunderbolt 4 (Kind-C) (Rear) 6x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Kind-A (Rear) 1x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Kind-C (Entrance) 2x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Kind-A (Entrance) |
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| Networking | Intel Killer Wi-Fi 6E AX1690i (2×2 802.11ax Wi-Fi inc. 6 GHz + Bluetooth 5.2 module) 1× 2.5 GbE port (Intel I226-V) 1x 10 GbE port (Marvell AQtion AQC113C) |
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| Show Outputs | 2x DP 2.0 (1.4 licensed) (through Thunderbolt 4 Kind-C, iGPU) 1x HDMI 2.1 (as much as 4Kp60) (rear, iGPU) |
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| Audio / Codec | 7.1 digital (over HDMI and Thunderbolt 4) Realtek ALC1220 Analog Audio / Microphone / Speaker / Line-In 3.5mm (Rear) USB Audio 3.5mm combo audio jack (Entrance) |
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| Enclosure | Steel Kensington lock with base safety |
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| Energy Provide | FSP750-27SCB 750W Inside PSU | |||
| Dimensions | 337mm x 317mm x 129mm / 13.7L | |||
| Chassis Growth | One PCIe 5.0 x16 with triple-slot GPU assist as much as 317.5mm in size | |||
| Customizable RGB LED illumination on chassis underside CEC assist for HDMI port Energy LED ring in entrance panel 3-year guarantee |
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Every package SKU corresponds to a NUC13SBB Shrike Bay Compute Factor. As well as, Intel can be readying the NUC13SBBi(9/7/5)F variants that include the KF processors – these Compute Components should not have any Thunderbolt 4 ports. The HDMI port / graphics outputs are additionally not current. The three KF SKUs additionally forsake the 10GbE port.
The block diagram under provides some insights into the design of the system in relation to the I/O capabilities. Notice that the system continues to make use of the Z690 chipset that was seen within the Dragon Canyon NUC.
PCIe x16 bifurcation (x8 + x8) is feasible for the Gen 5 lanes. Nonetheless, the baseboard design within the Raptor Canyon NUC kits doesn’t assist it. That is one more side that OEMs might use to distinguish their Shrike Bay-based techniques from the NUC13 Excessive.
Intel has supplied us with a pre-production engineering pattern of the flagship Raptor Canyon NUC (augmented with an ASUS TUF Gaming RTX 3080Ti GPU) for assessment, and it’s at the moment being put by way of the paces. The 150W PL1 and microarchitectural advances in Raptor Lake have ensured that the benchmark scores are off the charts in comparison with the earlier NUC Excessive fashions, albeit at the price of considerably greater energy consumption. On the economic design facet, I’ve been very impressed. By eschewing a elaborate chassis and choosing a easy cuboid, Intel has ensured that each one the I/O ports are simply accessible, set up of parts is pretty simple, and cable administration is massively simplified. The elevated dimensions of the chassis are nicely price these benefits over the earlier NUC Excessive fashions. Keep tuned for a complete assessment later this week.
