Review: Intel NUC Kit NUC5i5RYH

Benchmarks: Power Consumption

Arguably the NUC's most satisfying feature is how little power it consumes during use. Total system-wide power draw was measured as just 10 watts when idle, rising to only 24 watts when working flat out. That's slightly higher than the previous-generation NUC, though the slight offset can probably be attributed to the use of 16GB of memory and a larger SSD.