NUC 13 Extreme “Raptor Canyon” With 3-slot Desktop GPU Support Teased By Intel

Intel displayed their soon-to-be-released NUC 13 Extreme modular PC, also known as Raptor Canyon, at TwitchCon. We have, in fact, already seen a NUC 13 Compute Element, which is a PCIe-based mainboard with a 13th Generation CPU and RAM that was purportedly slated for the Raptor Canyon. The finished product does indeed resemble the leaked render.

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The next-generation NUC Extreme will be significantly larger than the previous one (13.9L vs. 8L chassis). As a result, Intel will continue to deviate from the small form factor for the most powerful NUC series, but this does not imply that Intel will abandon smaller devices.

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On the contrary, the company has previously introduced its NUC 12 Enthusiast and NUC 12 Pro series, each with a distinct form factor and distinct use (gaming and business). The Extreme series is intended to be used in place of a desktop computer and have the capability to update the central processing unit (CPU), storage, and memory, in addition to the graphics.

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Despite the release of Intel’s Arc A7 Limited Edition dual-slot GPUs, the upcoming generation of NUC Extreme will support even bigger desktop cards. The NUC 13 Extreme may also accommodate bespoke 2.5 and 3-slot Arc A7 cards from ASRock or GUNNIR. The official TwitchCon presentation included a GeForce RTX 30 GPU and an unidentified Raptor Lake CPU.

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Within the next couple of weeks, Raptor Canyon’s definitive specs, together with further specifics like pricing and delivery date, will be made public.

Via Intel