The Minisforum NUCXI5 is equipped with Intel Core i5-11400H CPU and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GPU. The Intel Core i5-11400H is a high-end Hexa-core SoC that was announced in mid-2021. It belongs to the Tiger Lake H45 family. It has 6 cores and 12 threads and can be boosted up to 4.5 GHz. The CPU offers a 12 MB L3 cache and supports DDR4-3200 memory. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile is an Ampere graphics card that was announced in 2021. It is based on the GA106 Ampere chip and offers 6 GB of GDDR6 graphics memory.
The other one, Minisforum NUCXI7, uses an even more powerful CPU and GPU which is Intel Core i7-11800H and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070. The Intel Core i7-11800H is a high-end Octa-core SoC that was also announced in mid-2021. It has 8 cores, and 16 threads that can be boosted up to 4.6 GHz. The CPU offers 24 MB of Level 3 cache and supports DDR4-3200 memory. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile was also announced in 2021. It offers 8 GB of GDDR6 graphics memory with a 256 Bit memory bus.
Both computer sizes are only 80 mm x 260 mm x 394 mm. They support totally up to 64 GB of DDR4 dual channel memory. They have two M.2 2280 PCIe slots for storage expansion and can be connected to 2 monitors at the same time using 1 HDMI and 1 thunderbolt 4 port. If bought with storage, they will come with Windows 11 pro-pre-installed.
