ETA Prime has taken a look into Intel’s latest NUC. This unit uses a 13900K and RTX 3080Ti. The CPU is cooled by a custom cooling module and a custom board. Gaming performance, as expected, is impressive. However, the 13900K does seem to suffer from the cooling implementation, and could barely score above the 12900K in Cinebench R23 despite having 8 additional cores. Still, it’s a good watch.
Personally, I would like to see how this would compete against a build in a Cerberus, NCASE M1, or Dan A4 H20 with the same CPU and GPU.

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