Intel Phantom Canyon NUC could be a small PC containing a fast Tiger Lake processor

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Intel's NUC 11 has surfaced in a leak showing a compact PC case containing a Tiger Lake-U quad-core processor with impressive boost speed, coupled with a GTX 1660 Ti graphics card. NUC is short for Next Unit of Computing, and it basically means a mini PC that can happily sit in your living room without looking like an eyesore. Intel's Ghost Canyon has just been released - see our full review here - and there are rumors that Phantom Canyon and Panther Canyon will follow (perhaps later this year, if a leaked roadmap is correct) using Intel's Tiger Lake-U processors. 11th generation (10nm+)). Hardware Leaks (new known tech site from Rogame) detected a 3DMark Time Spy benchmark that is supposed to come from a Phantom Canyon NUC (this is the version extrema '' destinada a los entusiastas, a diferencia del modelo de performance '' supposedly Panther Canyon). The apparently tested device is powered by a Tiger Lake-U quad-core (eight-thread) mobile processor with a base clock of 2.3 GHz and boost to 4.4 GHz. Remember that the CPU is either an engineering sample or an older version of the chip. , so the final product will be even faster. And this 4.4 GHz Turbo already looks impressive compared to what we see with mobile Ice Lake processors that top out at 4.1 GHz. Rogame assumes this chip is a 28W Core i5 Tiger Lake sampler.

GPU power

The NUC in the benchmark pairs this processor with an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, though the mobile version of this graphics card, not the full desktop GPU. Presumably, there will be a higher-end configuration of the Phantom Canyon with a more powerful GeForce card, allowing it to better compete with the performance of next-gen consoles which, after all, are also expected later this year (and apparently not affected by any coronavirus delays, though Intel's NUC may be). Remember that these NUC 11 models are still in the speculative realm, with nothing officially confirmed by Intel yet. According to this earlier rumor we heard, which spilled a lot of details, the Phantom Canyon case should be 1.35 liters and will have room for this discrete GPU, while the Panther Canyon will be smaller and rely on the integrated Intel Xe (Gen12) graphics. PCIe 4.0 support should also be integrated. Via Tom's Stuff