Discrete Intel ARC GPU enters NUC “Alder County” laptop kit
According to VideoCardz, Intel will launch an Intel NUC gaming laptop codenamed Alder Country that will feature Alder Lake-P and Intel Arc graphics. Alder Country is the successor of King County, which is Intel’s previous NUC X15 gaming notebook, with a 15.6-inch IPS screen, optional FHD@144Hz, FHD@240Hz, and QHD@165Hz, equipped with Tiger Lake-H45 processor, optional Core i5-11400H or Core i7-11800H, equipped with NVIDIA’s mobile graphics card, optional GeForce RTX 3060 or GeForce RTX 3070.
Maybe many people don’t know Intel’s NUC laptop, but as Intel’s reference product, its design will be adopted and improved by some manufacturers, such as ADATA’s XPG Xenia product line. With the introduction of discrete graphics by Intel, the discrete graphics of the new generation of NUC laptops has also shifted from Nvidia to its own products.
Aside from the laptop, the NUC 12 Enthusiast, codenamed Serpent Canyon, is rumored to have a similar operation. Unlike the NUC 12 Extreme high-performance small host codenamed Dragon Canyon, this is a mini host that will be smaller, rumored a few months ago with a discrete graphics card (possibly a mobile GPU) with Intel’s 8GB, 12GB, or 16GB GDDR6 memory, and a Thunderbolt 4 port and 2.5 Gb Ethernet port.
