No Wonder Intel Left The NUC Game

Intel drivers vs AMD drivers

Are these more or as powerful than Xbox Series X PS5?

I was hoping to see some Intel NUC's with the 14th gen processors. The new integrated Arc graphics are good enough to match the GTX 1630 which makes this fine for people who want to do light gaming or light video editing

Don't see the point of the full size ports on the back of the Geekom, when the intel could support display via the USB 4 ports.

i prefer AMD, however asus made ugly design 😢

That background music though. At one point I had flashbacks to an LSD trip I took when I was 16.

the moonstone R9 or R7 was released by amd a long time before the release of this video with a Ryzen 9 7940HS(way better) in it... why compare the nuc to the AS6 that has a much older Ryzen 9 5900HX in it ? 🤦‍♂

I have 2 computers I built last year with Ryzen 9 5900X CPU's. I also have 4 NUCs and I only use my NUC
s anymore. They are so fast. The NUC'8's are fast and easier to work with. I also have a NUC11 Enthusiast coming. I prefer Intel over unknown Chinese companies.

So lost on why you are comparing a business nuc to an APU amd one. Hades and Serp will blow the doors off that little pile of doo doo. Intel did make gaming Nucs they were just priced to high.

My ears insantly bleeded from your voice. :(

One side note is that the NUC is 50% quieter and the support is 100% better!!! But that's besides the point ;-)

Intel NUC, The Best You Can Get !!!

I have 5 NUC's lying around the house, but since INTEL is dumping the NUC division, time to look for replacements. MSI Cubi 5 looks promising...

Good Riddance 👿 I've always supported AMD 😇

So wait a moment. One of the competitors in this head to head sponsored the video? And most likely picked which Intel NUC to compare against. First time viewer, instant credibility lost.

Does it work on games like Diablo 4, God of war 4, Elden ring, photoshop, Autocad, and revit?

Fun watt hours comparison on that render:
The Intel NUC consumed 29.03 watt hours
The AMD AS6 consumed 22.02 watt hours

I am not one of those who measure the watts that I am using when I use my computer, so all of that info is wasted on me. Just looking at the surface, seeing the Geekom name and the Intel name, I would go Intel every time.

intel is garbage, yeah

It's not just you, but please stop mentioning the Kensington lock on devices. It's almost as useless as mentioning that the device has rubber feet.

Doing things 30% faster with 10% mode power draw means you did the same work by using up 24% less power

I think mini pc will be the future for general consumer. I am very happy with my Minisforum EM860. very impressed with ryzen 7 6800u with 680m 38w APU. You should check it out too. amazing performance, for lower power and lower price.
I got mine EM680 32gb gddr5 6400MHz ram 1TB nvme for only 449£ from amazon.

How does it compare to Mac m2 mini

The hdmi 2.1 only does 4k @ 60hz? Uggh i was so hopeful.

"all of the same connectivities..." while comparing 2 thunderbolt 4 vs 1 usb-c with DP alt... Sure. Ah! And not touching on multicore tasks. Very solid review lol

These look like they're just laptops with no peripherals.

yeah but ppl still buy intel...take it from me as I am selling these for life

No Quick Sync Video on the AMD CPU, non ? Apparently you can still get hardware transcoding working on SOME AMD silicon, but why take a chance if your primary use is for Plex or any other app that requires transcoding power. Just sayin'.

Buyer Beware. I bought a Geekom Minifun9 which was supposed to have a 650 power supply- needed for the 30 series nvidea card that they reccomend. Got a 500 watt. 3 days and not a peep from support. Not fun

biased paid review. Surprise, surprise

As someone who makes a living out of FreeBSD and GNU/Linux systems, keeping away from atrocities like M$ Windows, I took the news that Intel is bailing out of mini-pc business and handling it over to the likes of Asus with sadness and concern.

Intel's hardware for the NUCs was easily compatible with the open source ecosystem. Asus, on the other hand, tends to make sure to stamp their products with "Asus recommends Windows" stickers everywhere. And when things do not work and we reach out to them for support, their single line response usually goes as "Asus only supports Windows" or "this is a Windows only machine". Quite frankly, I do not see this as a win.

Intel can't compete with shit, it's been the bane of their existence for the last decade now.

The mini PC market is exploding - it's definitely going to get better as folks can then get a portable PC-level of power, but with more upgrade options

I wonder the performance between the two on Plex transcoding

If I did my math correct in the video rendering test the AS6, despite asking more power, used less energy then the NUC did.

I hate to be "that guy", but Thunderbolt 4 is an Intel technology.
The GEEKOM AS6 technically has USB4 ports, not Thunderbolt 4.

Thank you! That was a very helpful video for me as I am looking to buy a mini PC

There are no Thunderbolt ports on the geekom as6. No usb 4 ports either. Details matter.

Well manually, 18 X 72 = 1300 W.Min, 26 X 65 = 1600 W.Min. so the AMD uses less power.

Is one and a half faster same as 50% faster?

Intel was never in the same league as Dell, HP or Lenovo in the micro footprint format game. When was the last time you saw corporations using Intel NUCs as their workstation platforms ?

I'd like to know what the noise levels of both systems are when fully loaded.

TLDW: 700 dollar single board computer. NOT WORTH IT.

I recently got the barebone Intel NUC 13 with the i5-1340P new for €440 (it's €459 now here at the cheapest store but a lot of options for <€500). After adding 32GB of 3200Mhz RAM, a 1TB Samsung 980 Pro and 4TB Samsung 870 EVO to it the total price was about €800 which I think is still a great deal for the system. The reason I went for an Intel one was the support for quicksync since I'll use it as a media server and support for quicksync is a bit better on Plex. Wasn't it for this I maybe would've gone for an AMD one for the better gaming support, but since that wasn't the main purpose for the device I still give my preference to the Intel NUC for this usecase. The GEEKOM R7-6800H with the same amount of storage would've been around €850 and according to benchmarks the 1340P should outperform the 6800H in CPU workloads, althought I didn't check any real life performance comparisons.

Neither of these small pc beats desktop in gaming or processing power, it doesn't matter the difference in numbers comparison you have done. They are just a mobile pc alternative for overpriced notebooks.

Give me a NUC replacement with thunderbolt, similar accellerators and support in drivers and the open source community. I am not sure if there is anybody sane who buys a normal NUC for gaming. Those AMD based platforms usually are not supported well in many "not that new" frameworks. Means that they cannot take advantage of certain accellerators, because nobody ever implemented it for those AMD CPUs. So in many real world szenarios, the Intel CPUs have less load on their cores. That does not mean they are faster, that only means the CPU could do other stuff in the mean time. And this is were the sweetspot for tech users is: You have broad support, things just work, and your CPU doesn't get blocked by things, that yould be processed differently.
There are whole industries who cannot use AMD, because the CPU has unadressed problems. Take audio producers as an example. This does not mean AMD is bad, but there are heavy downsides to their architecture and they are simply not providing enough support and code to the open source community.
I do not want to rant against UFD Tech or AMD, but comparing products is way more complicated than running a few benchmarks (for gaming and rendering?! wtf?!) and going through the spec sheet. If you want benchmarks, test how the USB ports perform. There are huge differences that are not visible in the spec sheet.
Or to put it in other words "A stronger engine does not make a better car". It is very complicated to figure out all the differences and impacts and help people out there to make an informed choice.