Intel NUC 12 Extreme 'Dragon Canyon' Spec Sheet Leaks

pcmag.com:

Intel previewed the NUC 12 Extreme "Dragon Canyon" mini PC at CES, revealing very little about the hardware, but a leaked spec sheet has changed that.

As VideoCardz.com reports, the spec sheet reveals Dragon Canyon will be offered as two NUC models—the NUC12EDBi7 and the NUC12RDBi9. The only differentiating component between the two is the Alder Lake chip they use. The Bi7 ships with a Core i7-12700 (12 cores, 20 threads) capable of hitting 4.9GHz, while the Bi9 uses a Core i9-12900 (16 cores, 24 threads) and achieves 5.1GHz.

Included in the tiny NUC PC is space for a PCIe x16 graphics card, dual-channel DDR4-3200 SODIMMs to a maximum capacity of 64GB, and a PCIe x4 Gen4 NVME card slot. The available ports include a HDMI 2.0b, two Thuderbolt 4, six USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A, and 10Gbps Ethernet (and an additional 2.5Gbps Ethernet port on the Core i9 model). There's also Intel Wi-Fi 6E with dual internal antennas, 7.1 channel audio, and Bluetooth 5.2.

Pricing for both models was discovered courtesy of Twitter user @momomo_us. The barebones kits, which means you'll be required to add storage, RAM, and an operating system, costs $1,514 for the Core i7 model and $1,714 for the Core i9. That's significantly more than the NUC 11 Extreme "Beast Canyon," which started at $1,150 and $1,350 respectively.

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