{"id":84329,"date":"2015-12-09T15:00:15","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=84329"},"modified":"2015-12-09T15:22:20","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T13:22:20","slug":"intel-to-reveal-a-beastly-skylake-powered-nuc-codename-skull-canyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/84329-intel-to-reveal-a-beastly-skylake-powered-nuc-codename-skull-canyon","title":{"rendered":"Intel to reveal a beastly, Skylake-powered NUC: codename Skull Canyon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Discrete graphics card jocks we may be, we can\u2019t help but be interested in Intel\u2019s teaser of a forthcoming Skylake-powered NUC (Next Computing Unit).<\/p>\n

Think of NUCs as Intel\u2019s take on small-form-factor, ultra-compact computing. And Intel\u2019s latest, codenamed Skull Canyon, is to be their most powerful yet \u2013 by a good margin too.<\/p>\n

\"Intel<\/a><\/p>\n

While the exact specifications of the NUC are, for the moment, a mystery, we do know that it will employ a mobile Skylake CPU, featuring the most powerful iteration of Intel\u2019s Gen9 Iris Pro GPU yet.<\/p>\n

According to Fanless Tech<\/a>, Skull Canyon will make use of the Iris Pro 580 GPU, an iGPU (GT4e) with 72 EUs (Execution Units) and 128mb eDRAM (L4 cache).<\/p>\n

That\u2019s 30 more EUs than the next step down, the Iris Pro 550, which is an awful lot.<\/p>\n

Just to put things into perspective, the Iris Pro 6200 (GT3e) only sports 48 EUs and is capable matching the likes of NVIDIA\u2019s GTX 750<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Throw in the additional EUs and the architectural improvements the Iris Pro 550 holds over the Iris Pro 6200, and you\u2019ve got one hell of an NUC.<\/p>\n

Our question is simply this: how the heck is Intel going to manage the TDP<\/a> of a CPU like that, in such a compact space we mean?<\/p>\n

And even if they do, how are they passively cooling it?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an exciting prospect indeed. Just keep in mind that what excites us most about this NUC will make it a fairly expensive piece of kit.<\/p>\n

The Broadwell Core i7-5557U-powered NUC, for example, is already R8, 000<\/strong> plus.<\/p>\n

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Source: Fudzilla<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Perhaps the most powerful small-form-factor PC yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":84335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1085,16641,1727,11254,16643,1969,10497,10496,14424],"class_list":["post-84329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-hardware-2","tag-igpu","tag-intel","tag-iris-pro","tag-iris-pro-580-gpu","tag-news-2","tag-next-unit-of-computing","tag-nuc","tag-ultra-small"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}