The first mini PC equipped with the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 APU has been tested, with its Radeon 890M iGPU performing well in gaming benchmarks.
AMD Ryzen AI 300 Mini PC Delivers Superior Gaming Performance with Radeon 890M iGPU
It's been a few weeks since AMD launched its Zen 5 based Ryzen AI 300 APUs (aka Strix-Point) for gaming laptops and mobile platforms. Several laptop manufacturers have already announced new gaming laptops with the latest Strix APUs, but mini PCs with these chips have yet to be announced. The expected release date for these mini PCs is early October, but ETA Prime has published the first benchmarks of these mini PCs ahead of their official launch.
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ETA Prime recently uploaded a video reviewing an early sample of the SOUYO S9 mini PC based on the latest A.
The AMD Ryzen AI HX 370 features four Zen 5 cores and eight Zen 5c cores, along with the Radeon 890M “RDNA 3” iGPU based on the RDNA 3.5 architecture that can be overclocked up to 2900MHz. The RDNA 3.5 architecture brings 16 compute units to the Radeon 890M GPU, making it the fastest iGPU on the market today. This mini PC is also available in a standard Ryzen AI 9 365 configuration.
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Other specs include non-upgradeable LPDDR5X memory and three slots for PCI-E 4.0 NVMe SSDs. The SOUYO S9 comes in three different memory configurations in 16GB, 32GB, or 64GB sizes, with clock speeds of 6400MT/s or 7500MT/s (the configuration tested features a speed of 7500MT/s).
Meanwhile, storage upgradability is surprisingly good for a mini PC – typically most mini PCs don't have three M.2 slots, and this early unit had an issue with the middle M.2 slot, and the front USB4 port was also non-functional, but that's to be expected on an early sample.
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ETA Prime benchmarked this mini PC with some synthetic software and latest titles to test the performance of the mini machine. Thankfully, this mini PC had no shortcomings and delivered stable performance in all apps and video games. Power consumption during gaming was 50-70W.
Thanks to the new Radeon 890M “RDNA 3.5” graphics, it offers a significant performance boost over the previous generation Radeon 780M “RDNA 3” iGPU, making it ideal for gaming without a discrete GPU. Here are the composite app and game benchmark results:
App/Game Score/Average FPS Graphics Preset Fire Strike 10319 (Graphics) – Steel Nomad(DX12) 625 – Time Spy 3792 (Graphics) – CyberPunk 2077 80+ 1080p, Low, FSR Balanced Starfield 78 1080p, Low, 50% RES, Frame Generation On Hogwarts Legacy 72 1080p, Low, FSR Balanced Mortal Kombat 1 60 1080p, Medium, FSR Balanced Horizon Forbidden West 60+ 1080p, Low, Frame Generation On Ghost of Tsushima ~70 1080p, Medium, FSR 3.1 Balanced, AMD Frame Generation On Red Dead Redemption 2 76 1080p, Low, FSR Balanced
Due to the superior architecture and increased compute units from 12CU to 16CU, the performance is clearly better than the Radeon 780M. This mini PC can play the latest titles at 60+ fps at 1080p using low to medium quality settings. This is an amazing performance for a mini PC, as this level of performance can only be expected from GPUs such as the GTX 1650.
The SOUYO S9 isn't officially available to buy yet, and we don't have an official price for it yet, but we can expect to see more mini PCs like this one in October, and handhelds based on the Ryzen AI 300 Strix Point CPU soon.
News source: ETA Prime YT, Videocardz
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