Zotac ZBOX CI671 nano and ZBOX CI651 nano: Fanless mini PCs get Intel Meteor Lake refresh

[Redaktion]

Zotac has announced two new compact PCs with Intel Meteor Lake processors. The Zotac ZBOX CI671 nano and ZBOX CI651 nano are completely fanless and come with Intel Core Ultra processors (Arc graphics not included) and a load of I/O.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Zotac-ZBOX-CI671-nano-and-ZBOX-CI651-nano-Fanless-mini-PCs-get-Intel-Meteor-Lake-refresh.819603.0.html

[Julian M]

Lack of active cooling on the Zotac ZBOX CI671 nano and ZBOX CI651 nano doesn't affect its CPU choices, with the former using an Intel Core Ultra 7 155H and the latter a Core Ultra 5 125H. However, the Intel Arc graphics feature suite isn't supported, meaning users have to make do with an Iris Xe iGPU.

So it's the 155U and 125U variants of Meteor Lake then, 155H and 125H have Arc Graphics while the U chips get Xe.

Unsure who's misinformed or just plain lying here, but it's a shame - the H variants with Arc Graphics are definitely the better option.

[Hotz]

Indeed misleading information. Let's clear it up:


Every Meteor Lake will have the same graphics chip based on the same new "ARC" graphics. The only difference between them is the amount of Xe-Cores:

- The U-versions will get 4 Xe-Cores
- The H-versions will get 7-8 Xe-Cores


Because of inexplicable reasons however, Intel demands that those with lower than 7 Xe-Cores shall be named "Intel Graphics" and not "Intel ARC graphics". Which is stupid, because they are technically still the same architecture and graphics chip, and should benefit from the same driver optimizations.


Besides, there is no "IRIS Xe" graphics anymore on Meteor Lake. "IRIS Xe" was a different architecture and only exists on Raptor Lake or predecessors.

[JohnIL]

Lost me at passively cooled. Pretty much hot boxes with low powered mobile CPU/GPU.