Intel NUC5i7RYH Broadwell Mini PC With Iris Pro Graphics Tested
MojoKid writes: In addition to ushering in a wave of new notebooks and mobile devices, Intel's Broadwell microarchitecture has also found its way into a plethora of recently introduced small form factor systems like the company's NUC platform. The new NUC5i7RYH is a mini-PC packing a Core i7-5557U Broadwell processor with Iris Pro graphics, which makes it the most powerful NUC released to date. There's a 5th-gen Core i7 CPU inside (dual-core, quad-thread) that can turbo up to 3.4GHz, an Iris Pro 6100 series integrated graphics engine, support for dual-channel memory, M.2 and 2.5" SSDs, 802.1ac and USB 3.0. NUCs are generally barebones systems, so you have to build them up with a drive and memory before they can be used. The NUC5i7RYH is one of the slightly taller NUC systems that can accommodate both M.2 and 9.5mm 2.5 drives and all NUCs come with a power brick and VESA mount. With a low-power dual-core processor and on-die Iris Pro 6100-series graphics engine, the NUC5i7RYH won't offer the same kind of performance as systems equipped with higher-powered processors or discrete graphics cards, but for everyday computing tasks and casual gaming, it should fit the bill for users that want a low profile, out-of-the-way tiny PC.
Is there a way to filter out native ads? They don't even seem to be putting a "paid content" label on them.
Someone must be running a porting effort surely?
For the price I could get a Mini-ITX form factor machine that isn't that much bigger, with better performance, and more features. If you need something small like that you maybe looking at an ARM based SBC.
You say things that offend me and I can deal with it. Can you?
Very important difference. Mistake made all though the article and in summary.
The selling point of the Iris Pro is that it should be able to play AAA games at medium presets, but it's crippled by the low TDP and other iGPUs thrash it in benchmarks.
But then you would expect it to be virtually silent, because of the low TDP, but it's actually quite noisy.
Then, there's the price. Iris Pro has always come with a high price, because eDRAM is expensive to manufacture. That's one of the reasons why the previous generation Iris Pro had so few design wins.
Would be a nice low cost machine to develop for the Mac or iOS.
Can it run Mac OS?
- Zav - Imagine a Beowulf cluster of insensitive clods...
for its price i'd rather buy a used Mac
Well, Intel has really and truly done it, they've made their processor naming scheme completely inscrutable. I cannot tell at all which processors are faster than which other processors without becoming an expert on benchmark scores.
Also, five hundred bucks for that? It's just not worth it to make it quite that small. I just built an Athlon 64 X2 4000+ for less than $100 and it's less than twice the size and has only one fan. I'm sure that i7 is considerably more powerful, but not $435 more powerful.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Hackintosh are notoriously hard to install Intel HD graphics, and Yosemite killed support for third-party SSD (at least, the usage of TRIM), but with enough patience, that should be workable. Honestly, that's something I'd try should I get one of these NUC.
The Core i7 5557U has an Iris 6100 GPU without the eDRAM L4 cache, unlike Iris Pro.
Mada mada dane.
Gee, that's 36.7% slower than a mobile i7 CPU that came out 2 years ago! Good job, Intel. Keep direct-soldering underclocked garbage onto flimsy computers that nobody wants or needs for any use ever. Maybe it's because they're calling it an i7 even though it's a dual core and isn't an i7. It even has "support for dual-channel memory." What a leap in computing technology! If I wanted a small form factor PC, I'd get a slim micro-ATX case and put a board with a Pentium haswell CPU in it for a lot less money.
It would be kind of interesting to build a VMware cluster out of these.
Not only can't you replace the card, but they're dependent on non-free software.
Logic Supply ML100G-30. Pricier, but silent.
Take it easy, Charlie, I've got an Angle...
Every single wifi chipset is running non-free software, though, most of the time you are hidden that fact. I guess ignorance is bliss...
I have one of these that I use as my media server... headless Plex back end, general home storage and home automation web server, etc. Runs CentOS 6 beautifully (Gigabit wired connection, so don't care about lack of wireless drivers). Using a 256GB M.2 SSD as the local storage, with a few multi-TB USB3 drives for the media storage.
The nice things is that the CPU is that it's beefy enough to do transcode of several shows at the same time as my wife, myself, and kids all watch different shows on Rokus, iPads, and other computers via Plex. At the same time it can pull OTA recorded shows from my Tablo, do a transcode, put them in the media storage, and serve them back out without a hiccup. Try that with an Atom or an ARM.
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All documentation I've found show that this isn't Iris Pro, rather it's a Intel Iris Graphics 6100.
I wonder what motivated TFA's author to remove "pro" from the beginning of words? "cessor" == "processor"; "blem" == "problem"; etc...