Intel NUC 12 Serpent Canyon starts taking pre-orders
As early as June of this year, Intel’s new generation of NUC 12 Enthusiast codenamed Serpent Canyon was exposed. It features Alder Lake-H and Arc GPUs to replace Phantom Canyon previously built on 11th Gen Core and Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 graphics cards.
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Currently, SimplyNUC has started offering pre-orders for NUC 12 Enthusiast. It is equipped with an Intel Core i7-12700H processor with a TDP of 45W, 6 P-Cores and 8 E-Cores, 14 cores and 20 threads, a base frequency of 2.7 GHz, and a maximum turbo frequency of 4.7 GHz. The graphics card is Arc A770M, equipped with 16GB video memory, based on ACM-G10 chip, with 32 Xe cores of Xe-HPG architecture.
The overall dimensions of the NUC 12 Enthusiast are 230 x 180 x 60 mm, which is about 2.5L. It is equipped with two SO-DIMM slots supporting 3200 MT/s; three M.2 2280 slots; one 2.5Gb (Intel i225-LM) Ethernet port; supports Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2; two Thunderbolt 4 ports, six USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-A ports, one SDXC slot. In terms of display output, there are one HDMI 2.1 port, two DP 2.0 ports, and two Thunderbolt 4 ports.
User-selectable memory and storage start with 8GB of DDR4 RAM paired with a 256GB SSD for $1,699. If you increase to 16GB of DDR4 memory with a mainstream configuration like 1TB of SSD, the price is $1944
According to previously leaked information, the NUC 12 Enthusiast should also be equipped with a Core i5-12500H or a version with other ARC graphics cards, but it has not appeared yet.
