ASUS NUC 14 Pro+ (Core Ultra 7 258V) vs MSI Cubi 5 (Core i5-13420H) for Local AI: Local AI Performance

Side-by-side specification comparison with AI model-fit analysis. Data sourced from manufacturer specs, verified 2026-07-21.

	ASUS NUC 14 Pro+ (Core Ultra 7 258V) ASUS	MSI Cubi 5 (Core i5-13420H) MSI
Price	$949MSRP	$449MSRP
AI Framework	OpenVINO, DirectML, IPEX	OpenVINO (CPU)
CPU Cores	8	8
Ethernet	2.5GbE	2.5GbE
GPU Compute Units	8	48
GPU	Intel Arc	Intel UHD Graphics
Memory Bandwidth (GB/s)	136.5	83.2
Memory Bus Width	128-bit	128-bit
Memory (GB)	32	32
Memory Type	LPDDR5X 8533	DDR5 5200 SODIMM
Memory Upgradeable	No (soldered LPDDR5X)	Yes (DDR5 SODIMM)
NPU TOPS	47	0
OCuLink / PCIe	No	No
OS Support	Windows 11, Linux	Windows 11, Linux
Platform	Intel Lunar Lake	Intel Raptor Lake-H
Storage Type	NVMe Gen4 SSD	NVMe Gen4 SSD
TDP (W)	30	45
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Model Fit Analysis

ASUS NUC 14 Pro+ (Core Ultra 7 258V)

Max Q4: 14B class models (21B params)

Usable AI memory: 14GB · Method: intel_igpu_bios_limited Conservative

Llama 3.1 8B ✓

Llama 3.1 70B ✗

Llama 3.2 1B ✓

Llama 3.2 3B ✓

Qwen 2.5 7B ✓

Qwen 2.5 14B ✓

Qwen 2.5 32B ✗

Qwen 2.5 72B ✗

Mistral 7B ✓

Mixtral 8x7B ✗

DeepSeek R1 7B ✓

DeepSeek R1 32B ✗

DeepSeek R1 70B ✗

Phi-3 Medium 14B ✓

Gemma 2 9B ✓

Gemma 2 27B ✗

Stable Diffusion XL ✓

Flux.1 Dev ✓

Flux.1 Schnell ✓

MSI Cubi 5 (Core i5-13420H)