While the AMD Ryzen 5000 series of processors are seeing much wider adoption in the laptop market, the mini PC market is holding onto it a bit. The good news is that now the first information on “Cézanne” -based mini PCs has arrived, which will expand this niche market with much more powerful and efficient equipment than we had previously. ‘now.
It is the first mini PC with AMD Ryzen 9 processor
The name of this gear is Morefine S500 +, and it’s the first mini PC that officially includes an AMD Ryzen 9 processor, specifically the 5900HX model which is unlocked for overclocking and features 8 physical cores and 16 processing threads. thanks to technology. AMD SMT (for some reason the manufacturer mistakenly lists it as 4 cores and 16 processing threads) at a maximum speed of 4.6 GHz, so we are primarily a high-end processor for this low-power segment.
It is the first SKU in the entire Cezanne APU line (with AMD Zen 3 architecture), and it also has the distinction of supporting two M.2 2280 SATA / NVMe devices in addition to a storage device of 2.5 inches, for which also one of the mini PCs with the largest storage capacity on the market.
The device is in fact a barebone which can be equipped with up to 32 GB of DDR4 RAM at 3200 MHz or with the same capacity but LPDDR4 up to 4266 MT / s. In terms of connectivity, it is compatible with WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.0, offers DisplayPort 1.4 and HDMI 2.0 video outputs for 4K resolution and also offers two RJ-45 connectors, one of which supports 2.5G networks.
For its part, Minisforum presented the progress of its next team also AMD, a little bigger than that of Morefine and, judging by the design of its capacitors, the device seems to have an AMD Renoir APU but the SKU processor. the label clearly lists “X,” which also suggests that the device could be powered by Cezanne silicon. A clarification from the manufacturer will be necessary on this subject, but it is clear that the thing is promising and not bad.
For now, neither Minisforum nor Morefine have revealed more details about these teams, nor have they revealed the launch date or price of them. We can hope, given the AMD Ryzen 9 processor, that they will be relatively expensive but unfortunately until they are on the market, we will not be able to leave any doubts. Either way, it’s great news that AMD can finally stand up to Intel’s Ghost Canyon and Skull Canyon in the high-end, low-power mini PC segment.
