- The new GMKTEC Mini prototype can perform demanding games at 1440p above 60FPS
- It has an AMD Ryzen Ai Max + 395 APU with an IGPU Radeon 8060S
- No price or release date has been announced at the moment
A new GMKTEC mini PC prototype boasts of what is called the “best IGPU performance” never seen with equipment that seems to play demanding titles at 1440p and more than 60 frames per second at all levels.
Spotted by Tweak Town, the latest GMKTEC mini PC prototype has a Ryzen AI Max + 395 APU AMD with 16 cores (32 wires) and a Radeon 8060 (with 40 3.5 GPU cu) cooked on silicon. The result is a machine the size of a console that has impressive figures without needing one of the best graphics cards inside.
YouTuber Eta Prime, with more than a million subscribers, had exclusive access to this prototype machine, being so locked that the platform itself was pixelated throughout the video.
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The results speak for themselves. The new mini PC was able to execute Cyberpunk 2077 at the average of 80 images per second in the preset high at 1440p, with the recently published Auto V improved edition (with new ray tracing features and lighting) operating at 90 images per second in very high preset. This is a similar story for Marvel Rivals at 65 images per second natively with high parameters, and 77 images per second in God of War Ragnarök also reached the maximum.
When we start to see the limits of the graphic performance of the Ryzen AI Max + 395 APU are in the peak PC ports, as we can see with Marvel’s Spider-Man 2. Insomniac Games of the outdoor superheroes with a superior quality mode (FSR) turned to Fidelityfx mode (FSR). achieve ideal performance.
Well optimized titles have no problem running at a high level on the GMKTEC machine, as can be observed with the way it manages Doom Eternal in 1440p in Ultra Nightmare, with an average category of 140 without increasing. This machine can manage some of the most demanding titles on the market without compromising performance or visuals despite the lack of an office GPU.
This is a demonstration of what is possible from a high-end APU when it operates at 140 W compared to a lower power which could be seen from an all-in-one or laptop configuration. In the end, the price of a platform as this will do or break it for most people, because this could (hopefully) be an affordable way to bring PC games to the living room or to replace the Xbox S series.
A step forward for integrated graphics
Although an AMD Ryzen Ai Max + 395 APU does not make the best processors and graphics cards to sweat with what it can do, since it is a SOC operating at 140 W, we are impressed by the level of performance claimed to the display. We have seen that several other manufacturers have a level of success with the configurations of mini PC of previous generation, such as the Misinforum AX A1 Pro and the PC Beelink Ser9 Ai, however, this rigging “Stix Halo” will show that the material can resist discreet solutions in a factor of form otherwise impossible.
The SOC itself is billed by AMD as facilitating the “PC AI of the ultimate generation” because it is mainly used in some of the best ultrabooks on the market, such as the Asus Rog Flow Z13. We generally do not consider the AI Ryzen chips as a game material, given the lack of discreet graphics (whether in the form of a laptop or an office). However, the chip inside the laptop has a default TDP of 55W and not the 140W which is claimed in the prototype test images.
The AMD Ryzen AI Max + 395 supports a configurable TDP beach between 45 and 120 W, which means that the Mini PC prototype would have been slightly overclocked, benefiting from an additional air flow of the chassis and cases inside. As such, we see what can happen from the last AI Ryzen has exceeded its limit and not necessarily what the final consumption product (if it is released) could make GMKTEC. The result could probably include a 120W TDP and lose up to 16% of its performance potential at the cost of stability and longevity, but this has not yet been confirmed.
