Intel Expands Tiger Lake-U Laptop Line-Up, Teases Vicious Beast Canyon NUC

Computex could be a digital online-only present this yr, however it’s best to count on some large bulletins from lots of the heavy hitters in tech. The digital present kicks off Might 31 at 7:30 AM native time in Taipei, which interprets to 10:30 PM Jap on Sunday the thirtieth within the U.S. Whereas there’ll undoubtedly be a ton of bulletins over the following few days popping out of the present, we do have some early information tonight from Intel, to get the present began. Intel hosted a press and analyst Efficiency Workshop, and has lifted the curtain on the way it’s increasing the Tiger Lake product lineup, with a couple of new level merchandise within the laptop computer and small type issue desktop house as nicely.

Tiger Lake-U For Premium Laptops Will get Kicked Up A Notch

First up, the Tiger Lake-U sequence for premium and ultraportable laptops has been expanded with a few new members. Intel’s Core i7-1185G7 made fairly an impression on us in the MSI Prestige EVO 14, and now that processor has been succeeded by the Core i7-1195G7. Like its predecessor, the 1195G7 has a configurable 12 to twenty-eight Watt TDP with 4 cores and eight threads by way of Hyper Threading. There’s nonetheless the identical 12 MB of last-level cache aboard, as nicely. The place the Core i7-1195G7 differs is in its barely increased high clocks. The CPU portion maxes out at a blistering 5GHz on a single core and 4.6GHz throughout all cores, whereas there are 96 EUs within the Iris Xe built-in GPU that may hit 1.4GHz max.

New members of the Tiger Lake-U household

There’s additionally a brand new 12 to twenty-eight Watt Core i5-1155G7 within the household as nicely, which maxes out at 4.5GHz on one core and 4.3GHz on all 4. This one nonetheless has the identical 4 cores and eight threads of the Core i7 on the high, however carries solely 8 MB of last-level cache. The graphics clock on the Core i5 variant tops out at 1.35GHz. The Iris Xe within the Core i5-1155G7 has simply 80 EUs, just like the Core i5-1145G7 earlier than it. Like all Tiger Lake CPUs earlier than them, the brand new Core i7-1195G7 and Core i5-1155G7 help dual-channel DDR4-3200 and LPDDR4x-4266 reminiscence configurations with an mixture 128-bit bus to RAM, a requirement for the Xe branding. 

Intel To Unleash The BEAST Canyon NUC

On the opposite aspect of the Tiger Lake efficiency spectrum, the corporate has additionally introduced a brand new NUC 11 Excessive package, dubbed Beast Canyon. This technique appears to have a Compute Unit (built-in motherboard with CPU and SO-DIMM slots) that carefully matches what was rumored back in March. What we did not know then was that this one could be the biggest and strongest NUC but.

Approach again on the daybreak of the high-performance NUC sequence, the Skull Canyon NUC relied on built-in Iris Professional 580 graphics. Over time, Intel’s efficiency phase NUC has grown and turn into extra highly effective, resembling final yr’s Ghost Canyon NUC, which relied on small discrete graphics playing cards as much as eight inches in size, just like the GeForce RTX 2070 in our NUC assessment unit. Intel’s new NUC now can host a lot bigger element choices, together with full sized, full size graphics playing cards.

Intel’s Beast Canyon NUC 11 Excessive package is larger and badder than its earlier gen.

The Beast Canyon NUC 11 Excessive ships with Tiger Lake-H sequence CPUs from the Core i5, Core i7, and Core i9 households, though actual fashions have not been divulged simply but. Take a look at our full efficiency preview for Tiger Lake-H here, with an 8-core / 16 thread specimen. This model of the NUC can help as much as “full-length” graphics playing cards, although the precise supported dimensions are unknown. Some present playing cards are a lot shorter than their forebears, together with NVIDIA’s Founders Version GeForce RTX 3070 and 3080, so we count on these to suit no drawback, however we’re undecided about 14″ triple-slot playing cards like PowerColor’s Red Devil Ultimate Radeon RX 6900 XT. The facility provide could also be one other limiting issue since we do not know its capability but, both. Nonetheless we do know that it is truly built-in instantly into the Beast Canyon NUC itself, versus an exterior AC adapter. 

We additionally know that the NUC 11 Excessive may have an 8-liter footprint. The aforementioned Ghost Canyon NUC occupied simply 4.9 liters, so this model is 60% bigger, however it’s nonetheless smaller than many mini-ITX instances. For context, Cooler Grasp’s MasterBox NR200P and Fractal Designs’ Core 500 mini-ITX instances every sport a 20-liter quantity, greater than twice what Beast Canyon carries. To suit a full-length graphics card of any kind in its dimensions is fairly excellent. The case itself seems to have a principally matte black design, however with what has turn into Intel’s trademark RGB-lit cranium brand emblazoned throughout the entrance panel. It appears demonly beastly and we prefer it.

Since Computex is simply ramping up, keep tuned for extra from all the key gamers within the subsequent few days. We’ll be watching the present because it unfolds from Taipei on digital venues around the globe and we’ll be dishing up the newest and biggest tech as it’s unveiled.