Asus ROG NUC 2025: Mini-PC now even more powerful with new AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D release
Asus has introduced several mini-PCs this year across various releases. Arguably, the ROG NUC 2025 has dominated proceedings (curr. $2,499 on Amazon) after debuting in January during CES 2025. Since then, Asus has been gradually expanding its ROG NUC product line to the point that it now consists of Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060, GeForce RTX 5070, GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and GeForce RTX 5080 laptop GPU options.
As we have discussed previously, Asus complements these Blackwell architecture GPUs with Intel Arrow Lake HX processors in the form of the Core Ultra 7 255HX or the Core Ultra 9 275HX. Almost a year later and the company has finally decided to offer the ROG NUC with an AMD processor.
Specifically, the ROG NUC can now be configured with the Ryzen 9 9955HX3D, a Fire Range HX processor that contains 16 Zen 5-based CPU cores with support for 32 threads. For reference, we have the Ryzen 9 9955HX3D beating the Core Ultra 9 275HX by about 8% in our benchmarks.
Additionally, the Ryzen 9 9955HX3D contains the Radeon 610M iGPU. Too weak for high-end gaming, Asus complements AMD’s Fire Range HX processor with only the GeForce RTX 5070 laptop GPU for the time being. Elsewhere, the ROG NUC appears unchanged from its prior Intel-based releases. Currently, the new AMD model is only available in China, where it retails for CNY 14,999 (~$2,105) with 32 GB of RAM and 1 TB of storage. Although not confirmed just yet, Asus typically releases all its ROG NUC SKUs globally at some stage.
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JD.com via Lonely City Hardware & ITHome
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