No Wonder Intel Left The NUC Game

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For those curious, and if I did my math correctly, then the Intel NUC took about 29 Watt-hours to complete the render, while the AS6 took about 22 Watt-hours to complete the same task.

Really living up to their name now; Advanced 'Micro' Devices

For those not in the know, AMD Laptop CPUs have been significantly more efficient than Intel Laptop CPUs for quite some time now.

would love to see the power draw compared to a mac mini despite the obvious platform and size differences

great info, thanks GEEKOM for looking out for us and the UFD fam

Spend a lot of time in front of computers. The biggest relief I get is not just the heat, but the quiet that one experiences when they shut down their full sized desktop machine.

Would be nice to see a comparission between AS 6 and nextgen AS with 780M graphics just to see how much faster it will be or for the matter a Phoenix 2 APU when it is released.

I’d like to see a comparison to the BeeLink AMD based mini PC. Looking at: - Throttling - Expandability - Connectivity I bought my Sister-in-law and Nephew both a BeeLink from Amazon Prime Day. His is a little better as he will actually use it for school etc; where she will mostly be online or editing documents. I set them up, and thoroughly impressed with both units.

I had wanted a ryzen 7940HS/HX laptop without a dGPU, but it's not made yet. So, I ordered a 7940HS minisforum unit and was completely blown away as to how efficient and fast this thing is. In fact, I'm setting it up to daily drive replacing my 13900K/a770 for a week or so just to see if I miss the power or the 13900K. If you are going to do these comparisons in the future where you compare power usage, you absolutely must do power usage over time (ie, Joules), not just how much power it's drawing during your render. Right now, AMD is very much on top and I hope Intel has an answer in the future (as in yesterday - Xe is showing it's age). The 7940HS is more efficient than any other processor I have and if I lived in an area with frequent power outages or high prices for electricity that forced me to use a solar backup, I'd pick the 7940HS as it's going to run considerably longer on a battery backup system than anything I've tested. PS: These things are WAY overpriced when you consider that they don't have keyboard/mouse/monitor and only make sense as a desktop replacement.

The best part about the mini pc market is you can spend from ~$200ish to ~$900ish and find something to suit most needs. The bad part is there are so many out there it can be hard to find mini's for more niche uses.

For anyone that wants to know - the AS6 is built on the Asus PN53 ExpertCenter Mini-PC - there is an even newer model the PN53-S1 with Ryzen 7000 CPUs - we use them as our barebones kits at work and we love them!

The comparison at 6:00 yields 105kJ (kilowatt-seconds) for the NUC13, but only 79kJ for the AS6; the AS6 took 25% less energy and thus battery here.

seems i missed it - did you measure the idle power draw? how does it compare?

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.

Measure the power usage using the usb power input by running it of the usb-c port of the battery backup. And then benchmark how long they can run of off the battery backup during one Reese's regular work days' loads.

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

The AMD chip set is a generation old! They have a 780 m now

I may consider one of these for when I travel. I have a very old laptop which doesn't cut the mustard for what I do.

I picked up a um773! great little machine, as a gamer who has had to put his setup away since having 2 little kids 2 under 2 lol these mini and portable monitors is a life saving.