NUC 11 Extreme Beast Canyon mini PC appears in web store for 1100 euros
New details and pricing of Intel’s NUC 11 Extreme have surfaced online, the mini PC that Intel teased earlier this year. The starting price of the version with Intel Core i5 is 1100 euros. Users can place their own video card in the NUC.
There will be three models of the NUC 11 Extreme Kit, codenamed Extreme Beast, with Core i5-11400H, Core i7-11700B and Core i9-11900KB. The three processors are Tiger Lake chips, but it is striking that the Core i5 is a mobile hexacore with a TDP of 45W, while the Core i7 and i9 are desktop octacores with a TDP of 65W.
The processors are part of the NUC Compute Element, a PCIe plug-in card that also contains ram, storage and chipset. The basic configuration offers two times 4GB of ram for a total of 8GB and an M.2 NVMe SSD of 256GB. The NUC Extreme Kit offers space to place a video card in addition to the Xe GPU of the Tiger Lake processor.
| NUC11BTMi9 | NUC11DBBi9 | Core i9-11900KB | 8/16 | 3.3 / 4.9 | 24 | 65 |
| NUC11BTMi7 | NUC11DBBi7 | Core i7-11700B | 8/16 | 3.2 / 4.8 | 24 | 65 |
| NUC11BTMi5 | NUC11DBBi5 | Core i5-11400H | 6 / 12 | 2.7 / 4.5 | 12 | 45 |
Intel itself has the details of the NUC11BTMi7 and the NUC11BTMi9 already posted online. The NUC11BTMi5 can already be found on the Intel site, but the specifications are not yet there. At webshop Simply NUC the mini-pc’s are now also there. There it is stated that the version with Core i9 and i7 will be available in September, while the Core i5 version would have to wait until December. The starting prices of the NUC 11 Extreme versions with Core i9, Core i7 and Core i5 are 1360, 1190 and 1100 euros respectively. Those are the prices for configurations with 8GB of ram and 256GB of SSD storage, but without an OS. Users will also have to add the video card themselves. For example, Simply NUC’s surcharge for adding a GeForce RTX 3060 TI is 670 euros.
The NUCs also feature two SATA 600 ports and four M.2 slots, including two PCIe 4.0 x4 variants directly connected to the processors and two PCIe 3.0 x4 slots via the WM590 chipset. There is also a PCIe 4.0 x4 interface for plug-in cards. There are also two Thunderbolt 4 ports, there is HDMI 2.0b and there are eight USB 3.1 Gen 2 ports in addition to a 2.5 gigabit Ethernet connection and support for Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2.
Intel posted a teaser of the NUC 11 Extreme in May. It is not known when the official announcement will follow and the reviews will come online.