Minisforum is going to launch two new Intel chip mini PCs which are named NUCXI5 and NUCXI7. Both of them will share the same case design, equipped with a discrete graphics card, and will come with a thunderbolt port to perform ultimate gaming performance.
The NUCXI5 is equipped with Intel® Core™ i5-11400H CPU and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GPU. The Intel Core i5-11400H is a high-end Hexa-core SoC that was announced in mid-2021. It belongs to the Tiger Lake H45 family. It has 6 cores and 12 threads and can be boosted up to 4.5GHz. The CPU offers 12 MB L3 cache and supports DDR4-3200 memory. The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile is an Ampere graphics card that was announced in 2021. It is based on the GA106 Ampere chip and offers 6 GB GDDR6 graphics memory.
The other one, NUCXI7, uses an even more powerful CPU and GPU which are Intel® Core™ i7-11800H and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070. The Intel Core i7-11800H is a high-end octa-core SoC that was also announced in mid-2021. It has 8 cores, and 16 threads that can be boosted up to 4.6GHz. The CPU offers 24 MB of Level 3 cache and supports DDR4-3200 memory. The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile was also announced in 2021. It offers 8 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with a 256 Bit memory bus.
Both computer sizes are only 80mm x260mm x394mm. They support totally up to 64Gb of DDR4 dual channel memory. They have two M.2 2280 PCIe slot for storage expansion and can be connected to 2 monitors simultaneously using 1 HDMI and 1 thunderbolt 4 port. If bought with storage, they will come with Windows 11 Pro pre-installed.
Interfaces:
- RJ45 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet Port ×1
- HDMI ×1
- Thunderbolt 4 ×1
- USB 3.2 Type-A ×3
- Headphone Jack x1
- SD Card Reader x1
