What simply occurred? A mini PC packing AMD’s new Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor has reached the palms of a reviewer practically two months forward of its launch – and its efficiency is spectacular, to say the least. Tech YouTuber ETA Prime put a prototype of the Souyo S9 AI by way of the wringer, discovering that it might deal with among the most demanding gaming titles with ease even with out a dGPU.
For the uninitiated, the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 “Strix Level” chip relies on the Zen 5 structure and packs 12 cores. These are cut up right into a configuration of 4 Zen 5 energy cores plus eight Zen 5c effectivity cores.
The actual star, nonetheless, is the Radeon 890M built-in GPU. We already had a style of this little monster in simulated gaming handheld efficiency benchmarks earlier this month and it appears to be like like it might probably carry out simply as impressively in a mini PC setting.
ETA Prime’s testing exhibits that AAA gaming at 1080p with clean 60fps efficiency is on the menu with this unit. Cyberpunk 2077 averaged 74 fps, Starfield persistently stayed over 70 fps, Hogwarts Legacy bought round 72 fps, and Mortal Kombat 1 averaged 60 fps. In fact, you will not be maxing out visible settings on these, however the overview prototype hardly needed to run them at minimal spec both.
Notably spectacular was the mini-PC’s dealing with of the notoriously demanding Horizon Forbidden West. Whereas last-gen APUs struggled to interrupt 60 fps even at 720p on low settings, the Souyo S9 persistently topped 60 frames per second at 1080p low with AMD’s Frame Generation enabled.
Shifting on to different benchmarks, the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 scored 9,469 in 3DMark’s Hearth Strike take a look at, 625 in Steal Nomad, and 4,199 in Time Spy – stable outcomes pointing to a stable GPU efficiency uplift over the earlier technology.
Circling again to the mini PC itself, you will discover a pair of USB-A ports and a solitary USB-C port up entrance, although the latter wasn’t purposeful on Prime’s overview unit. Round again of the compact field are two HDMI outputs, Ethernet, two extra USB-A, and one other USB-C port.
Storage isn’t any joke both, with three M.2 NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD slots onboard, although one was inactive on the prototype. Reminiscence is the soldered LPDDR5X selection in 16GB, 32GB, or 64GB capacities, so upgradeability is not an possibility right here.
The Souyo S9 AI is anticipated to launch round mid-October however the pricing remains to be up within the air.
