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The gaming performance is too low to justify the price. Intel Graphics is still nowhere near the performance of discrete GPU from Nvidia or AMD.
by dikei 10y ago
The gaming performance is too low to justify the price. Intel Graphics is still nowhere near the performance of discrete GPU from Nvidia or AMD.
- JorgeGT 10y agoI agree, the price at Amazon.com is $673 (and you still need RAM and a SSD). You can build a pretty decent gaming PC at that price, the only disadvantage being portability. But how often do you need to move your gaming PC?
- sharperer 10y agoI picked mine up from B&H for $650 including shipping.
- dogma1138 10y agoThe Iris Pro 580 has about the performance of a desktop GTX 750ti which isn't bad, it can actually match the performance of "discrete" low to mid range mobile GPU's from both companies like the oh so popular GTX 750/850M. You won't get any decent GPU in a package this small anyhow, that said you can plug in an external GPU via the Thunderbolt port with ease.
- petra 10y agoHow competitive is the Iris Pro 580 price wise ?
- bhouston 10y agoIts integrated as part of the CPU so it is hard to tell how much it is.
- bhouston 10y agoAccording to: http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html NVIDIA GeForce 750 Ti is rated at 3,683. Intel Iris Pro 580 is rated at 1,921. That still seems like almost a factor of 2x between them.
- dogma1138 10y agohttp://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Iris-Pro-Graphics-580.160664.0.html http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Iris-Pro-Graphics-580.160... Look at medium settings actual game benchmarks. Here is another benchmark http://www.anandtech.com/show/10343/the-intel-skull-canyon-nuc6i7kyk-minipc-review/4 http://www.anandtech.com/show/10343/the-intel-skull-canyon-n... The 580 manages to beat the GB-BXi5G-760 in some benchmarks which has desktop GTX 760 in it, it only really gets smoked by the Zotac box which has a desktop GTX 960 which is a 200-230$ card.
- bhouston 10y agoNot sure what to make with the conflicting benchmark results. That said, Zotac box is beautiful, the GPU is great, and the price is competitive with other small form factors: https://www.zotac.com/page/en970 https://www.zotac.com/page/en970 The only downside is that these boxes are nearly the same price as desktops with similar specs. So I may stick with desktops just because they are more easily upgradable.
- dogma1138 10y agoThere are no conflicting benchmarks, synthetic benchmarks are never a good indicator of actual gameplay performance, and passmark is the one of worst benchmarks to begin with. That said I really like this new NUC, it can actually replace a laptop for most people that only drag it to work and never really work on the go outside of an office environment. It's considerably cheaper and blows the MBP15 out of the water when it comes to performance, heck if you want to do high end gaming on it than an external GPU enclosure + a GTX 1080/1070 + the NUC would be cheaper than a high end gaming laptop while delivering much more performance. Even if you need a more mobile setup it wouldn't surprise me to se 3rd parties making battery packs for the NUC and you can get a portable LCD monitor like the AOC E1659FWU for about 100$, and considering that most places people would work with a laptop (coffee shops, restaurants, libraries, trains, airplanes etc) anyhow have power you might not even need a battery pack.
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- creshal 10y agoDidn't Intel plan to release Thunderbolt eGPU addons for it? The price is still silly, but at least you could get decent performance on it if you wanted.
- dikei 10y agoThe Razer core is $499 for the enclosure only, which make the price even harder to swallow.
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- izacus 10y agoConsidering the size of gaming graphics cards, having a NUC is kinda pointless then :)
- braderhart 10y agoYes. Thunderbolt 3 supports 40Gbps and should allow for an external GTX 1070 or 1080. The cheapest Thunderbolt 2 PCIe chassis on Amazon is around $200, and I don't see why we can't have a Thunderbolt 3 PCIe chassis at this price point.
- imtringued 10y agoThey missed an opportunity to add GDDR5 directly on the mainboard. That's how AMD is cranking out pretty good performance for the PS4 despite it using an APU.
- undersuit 10y agoThe Intel CPU used in this product has a 128MB L4 cache to be used by the CPU and GPU. It has it's own benefits compared to the PS4's GDDR5 unified memory approach.