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  • - Hey guys, this is Austin.

  • This little box might not look like much,

  • but inside is one of the strangest stories

  • in Intel's history.

  • So this is the Intel NUC8i3CYSM.

  • (bell ringing) Intel have been selling

  • these little NUCs for quite a while,

  • and some of them are pretty cool.

  • Last year we took a look at the Skull Canyon NUC,

  • which had a proper amount of gaming power in a tiny package.

  • With a lowly Core i3 inside,

  • this does not look nearly as impressive,

  • and that's because it's not, at least on paper.

  • So traditionally, Intel has used what is known as

  • the tick-tock model,

  • not to be confused with tick tock.

  • The tick, tock.

  • So essentially there are two different ways

  • of building a new chip.

  • First of all, you just start with the big stuff.

  • The architecture of the things

  • will actually legitimately make it faster year-on-year.

  • Once you do that, the next iteration

  • will just take that design

  • and shrink it to a smaller process node.

  • So if we get a little bit of Michael's Toys action,

  • let me show what happened just a couple years ago.

  • That is a really bad square even though I have a ruler.

  • Anyway, so say that this is the previous generation.

  • This would be 14 nanometer, which is pretty much

  • what all single Intel processors use today.

  • This strategy worked great

  • until they hit the 10 nanometer node.

  • Now this is what the Cannon Lake chip inside is based on,

  • and unfortunately, well, they hit some road bumps.

  • So the advantage of going to a smaller process node

  • is that you can cram more and more transistors

  • into a smaller and smaller area.

  • So if we have a quad-core processor,

  • and this is very simplified,

  • what you're getting here is basically

  • the same number of cores but just in a smaller area,

  • which means that not only is the chip

  • either cheaper to produce

  • or you can actually fit more cores.

  • So in theory, if you had a 10 nanometer chip

  • which is the same size as the old one,

  • it could be a six-core design as opposed to a quad-core one.

  • So when I say 14 nanometer and 10 nanometer,

  • what I'm referring to is the process technology used

  • to actually build these chips.

  • So think of it like this.

  • If I'm trying to draw something really precise,

  • it's the difference between using a Sharpie and a pen.

  • It is a much finer-grained tool

  • which I could be much more precise with.

  • The smaller the tip, the more precise

  • and the more stuff you can cram into

  • these tiny, tiny little lines.

  • This is absolutely key to the reason why

  • computers have advanced over the last 50 years.

  • Every time you get a smaller and smaller process node,

  • it means you can get more densely pack it with transistors

  • which can be spent on things like the CPU, the GPU.

  • Really, this is absolutely the reason

  • why things are 100 million times faster

  • than they were in 1972.

  • Now, the downside here is that

  • the smaller and smaller you get,

  • the more difficult it is to actually pack

  • all these transistors.

  • I mean, seriously, at a certain point,

  • you hit the atomic level

  • where just things don't really get much smaller.

  • From 2006 to 2014, every two years,

  • Intel were able to shrink the process

  • over and over and over again.

  • That is until 2014 where they hit a huge, huge wall.

  • Now this forced Intel to get very creative

  • with their updates without the advantage

  • of being able to constantly change their process.

  • Instead, they did things like add more CPU cores

  • to pretty much their entire lineup,

  • which brings up to the Cannon Lake CPU inside this NUC.

  • Now originally it was supposed to ship

  • as a 7th Generation part all the way back in 2016,

  • but as you might imagine,

  • things didn't quite go that smoothly.

  • So why should anyone care about this little NUC?

  • Because inside this is running

  • Intel's 10-nanometer Cannon Lake processor,

  • and up until this point it is the very first

  • and only device that's shipped with it.

  • So to compare, I have, well, maybe not a perfect

  • apples-to-apples comparison.

  • However, this is an Aspire E5,

  • and it does have a very similarly-specced Core i3,

  • just a 14-nanometer version as opposed

  • to the 10-nanometer inside the NUC.

  • Put these two side-by-side,

  • and they're about as close as it gets.

  • They're both dual-core processors,

  • they both have Hyper-Threading.

  • They both have a 2.2 gigahertz base.

  • Really, the only difference is that the laptop

  • has a slightly higher turbo with 3.4 versus 3.2,

  • but besides that, it's gonna be about,

  • well, this is about as close as I can get a comparison.

  • So first of all, let's start out with Geekbench.

  • Now I'm not expecting any huge performance differences,

  • but what's interesting about this

  • is that the Cannon Lake chip inside

  • is pretty much entirely undocumented.

  • Now, yes, on the ark.intel site,

  • you can see that it does confirm at least

  • that it's 10 nanometer,

  • but beside that, this is an entirely new CPU architecture

  • which has basically never been talked about before.

  • It's unusual because usually when Intel brings out

  • a new series of chips,

  • they're way more on top of talking about

  • the different specs and everything that they've done

  • to improve it, but with this,

  • it's like it was a weird half-step

  • that they never actually really fully acknowledged?

  • Okay, so very, very close.

  • The NUC is very slightly quicker in single core,

  • and a little bit quicker multi-core,

  • but honestly, that's close enough

  • that I would consider it to be basically a draw.

  • Next, let's give Cinebench a try.

  • In any case, it definitely does not look like

  • Cannon Lake is any kind of major improvement

  • as far as IPC goes.

  • It's very, very close.

  • So in this one, the laptop wins by a little bit,

  • 353 versus 331.

  • I'm pretty sure that's entirely

  • just that slightly higher turbo.

  • I want to give a huge shout out to Ian from AnandTech

  • for not only helping me research for this video,

  • but also doing a terrific write-up

  • all about the incredible saga

  • that was Intel's 10-nanometer process.

  • The fact that this is a product that is in my hand in 2019

  • is kind of incredible 'cause for all intents and purposes,

  • Cannon Lake has been completely shelved at this point.

  • So where are things today?

  • Well, Intel has pretty much given up

  • on the Cannon Lake chips

  • in favor of going straight to Ice Lake,

  • which in theory will be shipping later this year

  • on a 10-nanometer process with improved architecture.

  • Essentially, it's a tick and a tock rolled into one.

  • Meanwhile, we have the NUC as what is arguably

  • one of the only examples of an Intel future

  • that we never got to experience,

  • although judging by the performance,

  • wasn't that all exciting to begin with.

- Hey guys, this is Austin.

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