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A PC that's only slightly larger than a gaming console but carries an RTX 5090 and 128GB of RAM, is this the end of the giant gaming PCs that take up half the corner of the room?
ASUS has just created one of the most shocking products of the year when officially introducing ROG NUC 16 Edition 20 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Republic of Gamers brand. This is not just a simple upgrade but a statement that flagship power can now fit in the palm of your hand.
What immediately caught the tech community's attention was not the semi-transparent design with luxurious gold accents, but the hardware inside. ASUS has crammed components that only appear on the most high-end gaming laptops into a body of only about 3 liters.
Simple visualization
ROG NUC 16 Edition 20 is roughly the same size as a modern console but has the same performance as many high-end gaming PCs.
Extreme configuration of ROG NUC 16 Edition 20
Component Parameters
Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX CPU
Multiplier 24 multipliers
NVIDIA RTX 5090 Laptop GPU
VRAM 24GB GDDR7
RAM Maximum 128GB DDR5-6400
2TB PCIe 5.0 SSD
Expansion slot Add 1 M.2 slot
Wi-Fi connection 7
Video output port 2 HDMI 2.1 + 2 DisplayPort 2.1
Thunderbolt Thunderbolt 4
Volume About 3 liters
RTX 5090 in Mini PC is unprecedentedvariable
According to many current Mini PC market statistics, only about 15% to 20% of products possess a GPU powerful enough to play AAA games at high settings.
ROG NUC 16 Edition 20 goes a lot further.
Instead of RTX 5080 Laptop on the standard version, ASUS directly equips RTX 5090 Laptop GPU with 24GB GDDR7.
This is the VRAM capacity that many high-end desktop graphics cards today have to be wary of.
Some games are expected to operate at a very high level
Title Setting Expectations
Cyberpunk 2077 Ultra + Ray Tracing
Black Myth Wukong Ultra
Alan Wake 2 Ultra
Microsoft Flight Simulator Ultra
GTA VI PC Future Ready
The biggest challenge is not performance but temperature
Stuffing an RTX 5090 into a 3-liter space sounds like an impossible task.
ASUS solves with the system:
✅ Three high-performance cooling fans
✅ Large size Vapor Chamber
✅ Optimal airflow in many directions
✅ GPU power up to 175W
This is the power level that many large gaming laptops are using.
Compared to high-end Mini PC gaming competitors
GPU products
ASUS ROG NUC 16 Edition 20 RTX 5090 Laptop
MSI Claw Desktop Series RTX 5070 Ti Laptop
Zotac Magnus One RTX 4080 Desktop
Old Intel NUC Enthusiast RTX 4070 Laptop
Minisforum AtomMan G7 Ti RTX 4070 Laptop
It can be seen that ASUS is pushing the Mini PC limit to a whole new level.
The boundary between laptop and desktop is disappearing
ROG NUC 16 Edition 20 is a prime example of the new trend in the PC industry.
It uses laptop CPU.
It uses laptop GPUp.
But the usage experience is much closer to the desktop.
Users can connect a 4K screen, mechanical keyboard, gaming mouse, sound system and use it like a real gaming machine.
Meanwhile, the occupied area is only about one-tenth that of a traditional ATX case.
The expected selling price makes many people consider it
ASUS has not announced the official price.
However based on current configuration:
Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX
RTX 5090 Laptop 24GB
128GB DDR5 RAM
PCIe 5.0 SSD
Limited design celebrating the 20th anniversary
Analysts predict the price could completely exceed the threshold of 90,000,000 VND and even approach 120,000,000 VND depending on the configuration.
The most notable thing
For many years, users have always had to choose between
Strong performance but large machine
Small machine but limited performance
ROG NUC 16 Edition 20 is trying to completely erase that trade-off.
If ASUS really controls the temperature well and the price is not too far from the reach of high-end gamers, this could become the world's most powerful gaming Mini PC ever commercialized.
A PC is only 3 liters but carries an RTX 5090, do you think the future of gaming PCs will be "super powerful small boxes" like this or giant cases that still cannot be replaced?
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