Integrated graphics on a mini PC (or NUC)

[goinggreynow]

Morning all
About 6 or 7 weeks ago, I started a thread about possibly moving from a Windows desktop to a Mac Mini and received a significant number of helpful replies. Thanks once again to all who responded.
I haven't yet moved forward with this and although I don't want to resurrect the older thread, i would find it really helpful to hear of any first hand experience of using integrated graphics on a small factor Windows machine to run (say) LR.
Having been (and still I am) interested in the form factor of something like a NUC (or Mac Mini), I'd like to either rule in or out the option of integrated graphics as being sufficient.
Most of these mini PCs (same as the mac Mini) have non-upgradeable graphics and so I'm sitting here trying to wade through the plethora of different names (e.g. UHD, Iris XE, Arc, Radeon, 680m, 780m and many many more) and wondering which of them would be suitable.
I say most because I have found one "mini" PC that will take a graphics card but it is a fair bit bigger than the size of a "NUC.
Thanks again.

 

[LongLensPhotography]

Amd may be considerably better than intel. Intel is pretty pathetic, like good for spreadsheets.... Neither is great to be fair... Lr does use a fair bit of GPU these days

 

[Sangoma]

Amd may be considerably better than intel. Intel is pretty pathetic, like good for spreadsheets.... Neither is great to be fair... Lr does use a fair bit of GPU these days

Agreed, some Radeon GPUs are not bad.
Find a GPU comparison site, and compare the ones you have as options.

 

[inquisitive_chap]

I'm only starting out but I think it's not just the graphics card but the ram. My laptop has iris XE which is really pretty good for integrated graphics BUT I also have 64gb Ram. I have no idea what importance to attach to the card Vs Ram. But for what I do so far on LR it seems ok

That said, if I had my time over I would get one with a proper graphics card. Id probably also get a tower rather than a mini just because it's easier to upgrade bits. But that's just me,

 

[luthy]

I bought a mini pc last Jan to run LR & PS it has a amd 5560 it runs tha software fine maybe not the fastest but it works without a problem. And for about £270 including windows 11 nothing to complain about.

 

[wilt]

I've an Intel NUC 11 with i5-1135G7 CPU with integrated Iris Xe graphics.
It's got a fast M.2 boot drive and 32GB Ram
While it's my secondary computer, it can run any programs pretty well. For games it would be seriously lacking though.

 

[LancsMak]

Don't forget that the moment you go near any of the AI adjustment tools which are getting more and more prevalent then you're going to suggest without a proper graphics card.