Asus Unveils ROG NUC 2025 Gaming Mini PC
At CES 2025, Asus showed off the second generation of its own ROG NUC. The ROG NUC 2025 gaming PC is powered by Intel processors (up to 24 cores), with no AMD chips available. The company hasn’t announced which processors it will use, but they will be from the Core Ultra 9 200HX and Core Ultra 7 200HX lines.
Asus does not say which specific Core Ultra 200HX processor models will be available for the ROG NUC 2025. As a reminder, the Core Ultra 200HX are mobile versions of the desktop Core Ultra 200S models and offer the maximum number of computing cores available in the new Arrow Lake architecture. The senior chips contain eight high-performance P-cores and 16 energy-efficient E-cores. The processors also include an AI accelerator (NPU) with a performance of 13 TOPS (trillion operations per second). As a graphics subsystem, the ROG NUC 2025 will offer a mobile GeForce RTX 5080 with 16 GB of GDDR7 memory.
The dimensions of the ROG NUC 2025 are 282.4 x 187.7 x 56.5 mm (internal volume of 3 liters), and the weight is 3.12 kg. The new product will offer 16 GB of DDR5-6400 RAM with the ability to install up to 96 GB of RAM, a 1 TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe drive (support for up to 2 TB), as well as support for Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4.
Based on NVIDIA’s suggested retail price for RTX 5080 laptops, the system is unlikely to cost less than $2,199. The Asus ROG NUC 2025 is expected to launch in Q1 2025, with no specific release date available.
