ASUS's new limited-edition ROG NUC 16 Edition 20 is powerful, but it comes with a $7,000 price tag

The new ROG NUC 16 Edition 20, created in part to celebrate 20 years of ASUS's Republic of Gamers (ROG), represents the company's most powerful and premium gaming-focused NUC to date. It's part of a limited edition Edition 20 lineup of gear, all sporting a custom ROG 20th anniversary design with black, gold, and red accents, which you can see here on the semi-transparent chassis.

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It's stylish, bold, and premium, with the ROG 20th anniversary edition gear also representing the company's most premium offerings. The ROG NUC 16 Edition 20 is definitely that, with a compact 3-liter size, a removable stand for both vertical and horizontal orientation, and the flagship Intel Core Ultra 9 Processor 290HX and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU with 24GB of GDDR7 memory. With a combined 300W of power, it's definitely a high-end enthusiast-class hardware configuration.

It also ships with dual 32GB DDR5-6400 CSO-DIMM memory modules, with the option for 128GB of memory capacity when pairing two 64GB DDR5-6400 CSO-DIMM modules. Storage-wise, it also ships with a 2TB M.2 2280 NVMe PCIe 5.0 SSD, with additional PCIe 5 and PCIe 4 slots for expansion.

Throw in Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4, 2.5G Ethernet, and Thunderbolt 4, and it's more powerful than full desktop rigs twice or three times its size. However, with all of this premium hardware, the price is, yeah, high.

With 64GB of memory, the limited-edition ROG NUC 16 Edition 20 is currently listed for $6,999.00 USD over on retailer Newegg. For an impressively powerful mini PC built for PC gaming and hardware- and memory-intensive local AI workloads, it's steep. To the point where ROG NUC 16 Edition 20 feels more like a luxury item than an attainable piece of hardware.

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Naturally, with the current memory and storage crisis, any device with 64GB of memory, 24GB of VRAM, and 2TB of internal PCIe Gen5 SSD storage costs a lot more than what it should, so the price point also reflects the current reality.