Is called Intel NUC Studio 12 Pro and wants to be the answer to the Mac Studio presented a month ago by Apple. Nothing official yet, but pictures of the mini computer and some information on performance are leaking online.
Intel NUC Studio 12 Pro, the answer to Mac Studio
The new Intel NUC Studio 12 Procode name “Wall Street Canyon“, He wants to make Apple regret leaving its historical relationship with Intel in abeyance. It is not an official launch, but it seems that the company is about to launch a new NUC which in shape and size is very reminiscent of the Mac Studio from Applepresented on March 8th.
The device should have a design 4×4 like the previous NUC 11, with two USB 3.2 ports on the front for speeds up to 10 Gbps and an audio jack input. A new power adapter and two 2.5-inch SATA drive inside this parallelepiped, which offers on the back two HDMI inputs, due USB-C e due USB-A. And several air intakes to keep the engine cold under the body.
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Inside you will find several options for the processor, all of the Alder Lake P family. The top of the range is Core i7-1270P (12C / 16T and Iris Xe 96 EU) with vPro (also in version without). Then Core i5-1250P, Core i5-1240P, Core i3-1220P.
The NUC supports due slot DDR4 for memory and has two inputs PCIe 4.0 x4 M.2 SSD. In addition to a network card AX211 WiFi6E.
In terms of performance, the processors seem to outperform by 25% the previous generation in single-threaded tests, while doubling the performance multithread. The integrated GPU Intel Iris Xe instead it seems to be in line with previous generations.
NUC computers offer more configuration options and are generally theoretically very different proposals from the Mac Studio presented by Apple. But if Intel were to confirm the addition of the name “Studio”To this small product, it would be impossible not to take up the Apple challenge. So far, however, these are all speculations: we will keep you informed.