MINISFORUM releases UM790 XTX mini-PC with overclocked AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS APU and OCuLink eGPU support
MINISFORUM releases UM790 XTX mini-PC with overclocked AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS APU and OCuLink eGPU support
MINISFORUM has started selling the UM790 XTX, a powerful new mini-PC that comes with modern ports like OCuLink and USB4. The MINISFORUM UM790 XTX can also push its AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS APU to 70 W, unlike many of its competitors.
The 70W TDP boost is a decent improvement from the UM790 Pro's 35W. It is also expected that the XTX version won't have any of the fan issues that plagued the Pro version, if the 780 XTX is any indicator.
I just wish APU's were better for gaming than they are now. Having a tiny PC that could play games at 1080p would be awesome. For now it's just good for emulation and non graphically intense games.
They are actually pretty decent though? At least all the ones since Zen 3+ (Radeon 680M, 780M etc)
I have the previous model, the UM780 XTX (same iGPU - Radeon 780M) and it's been very decent for 1080p gaming (medium-high, depending on the game). Even 1440p is playable depending on your game/settings. Cyberpunk 2077 for instance runs perfectly at 70FPS on 1440p low, which is incredible if you think about how this game caused so much trouble when it first came out.
I also have a ThinkPad with a Zen3+ APU (Radeon 680M), and it can run Forza Horizon 4 at Ultra settings and 60FPS locked.
On both these machines, I game on Linux (Bazzite and Arch), so it's pretty awesome that I can run Windows games and get so much performance with cheap hardware, and using open-source drivers.
So yeah, these are some really great times for APU / mini PC / AMD / Linux fans.