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  • lakedude - Thursday, November 21, 2019 - link

    25 watts from the dual core i3 to the 6 core i7. Looks like some more of those Intel TDP games that only apply to the base frequency. What happens when that i7 hits 4.6 GHz instead of the base 1.1 GHz?
  • Jorgp2 - Thursday, November 21, 2019 - link

    Lol, do you people know anything
  • Korguz - Thursday, November 21, 2019 - link

    do you, jorgp2 ???
  • nandnandnand - Thursday, November 21, 2019 - link

    We know that Intel lies. Often.
  • edzieba - Thursday, November 21, 2019 - link

    "What happens when that i7 hits 4.6 GHz instead of the base 1.1 GHz?"

    It'll run at 4.6GHz on demand until its combined power/thermal budget runs out, then throttle back. That's how Turbo Boost works. Unless you're running some all-core continuous workload (why are you doing 3D rendering on a NUC anyway?) your workload is going to be bursty rather than steady-state.
  • imaheadcase - Thursday, November 21, 2019 - link

    Have you never heard of Turbo Boost on almost every intel CPU?
  • Smell This - Thursday, November 21, 2019 - link


    I would enjoy an AT 'Deep Dive' on the Core i3 to i7 NUCs compared, to the AMD Udoo Bolt / Sequoia embedded UCFF systems, along with a 35w ASRock DeskMini A300-series rig.

    . . . with a burger and fries with that?
  • dullard - Thursday, November 21, 2019 - link

    Intel has always stated TDP is for base clocks and turbo is higher power. Why is that a difficult concept?
  • Fulljack - Friday, November 22, 2019 - link

    Intel's Turbo specs for i7-10710U is 4.7 GHz for single core or 3.9 GHz for all six core. It's tied into PL4, which takes 90W power and it's Tau (duration) is only 10ms.
  • azfacea - Thursday, November 21, 2019 - link

    still no HDMI 2.0 from the iGPU.
    no one can dispute intel's leadership position as world's no1 laughing stock.
  • smilingcrow - Thursday, November 21, 2019 - link

    I'm sure that there are organisations or individuals that can trump Intel's woes.
  • imaheadcase - Thursday, November 21, 2019 - link

    Huh? why would you need HDMI 2.0 in a NUC. You clearly don't understand the target audience for these. lol
  • azfacea - Thursday, November 21, 2019 - link

    apart from you being the one who doesnt really understand NUCs, the situation isnt any better for any other comet like CPUs
  • nandnandnand - Thursday, November 21, 2019 - link

    4K 60 Hz TVs are cheap, and even Raspberry Pi 4 has HDMI 2.0. You may be a head case, lol.
  • damianrobertjones - Friday, November 22, 2019 - link

    Isn't HDMI 2.0 required to play UHD 4k discs?
  • dullard - Thursday, November 21, 2019 - link

    I'm honestly ignorant about HDMI. Figure 3 above states that the NUC has HDMI 2.0b through the LSPCON chip. What does it matter if it is directly through the iGPU or through LSPCON? Is there an actual difference to the end user? Or is it just the few dollars for the chip that concerns you?
  • timecop1818 - Thursday, November 21, 2019 - link

    That's because the CPU/GPU doesn't have HDMI2 and that's a good thing - it's inferior to Displayport in every way AND requires licensing fees per unit to implement.

    Displayport is open, royalty free, and superior. Besides, this particular NUC has HDMI 2 via converter IC, why do you care if it comes from gpu direct vs converter?
  • Xyler94 - Thursday, November 21, 2019 - link

    Does anyone know if Intel plans to release a NUC with Ice Lake? I'm actually interested in one of those as a potential HTPC, especially if Steam in-home streaming works well with it.
  • Der Keyser - Thursday, November 21, 2019 - link

    That’s a pretty good question that I would like to hear the answer to as well. I don’t get why all the fuss is about Comet Lake when it’s Ice lake that is far more interesting. I can live with “only” four cores, but I cannot live with that crappy UHD graphics. A 25w TDP Ice Lake G7 processor would be pretty interesting in one of these small NUC’s
  • Der Keyser - Thursday, November 21, 2019 - link

    Specifically the i7-1068G7 would be a VERY interesting NUC CPU :-)
  • patel21 - Thursday, November 21, 2019 - link

    At 25 W mode with proper cooling so that it can turbo without throttling. :-)

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