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Novabench 1050ti4/12/2023 Built on the 14 nm process, and based on the GP107 graphics processor, in its GP107-400-A1 variant, the card supports DirectX 12. Oh, maybe one last, how about pairing an eight-core AMD Ryzen CPU with an Nvidia Geforce 1650 for the next flagship mini PC for the same price? That’s a tantalizing prospect us and creatives would salivate at.The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti was a mid-range graphics card by NVIDIA, launched on October 25th, 2016. Other than that there’s hardly anything we’d recommend improving. One minor grip we had was with the lack of extra USB ports four is simply not enough in this day and age. Just bear in mind that this is not a gaming PC and despite the cooling system that it prides itself of, the H31G can get quite noisy under load. Minisforum managed to deliver the Goldilocks of mini workstations (opens in new tab). We couldn’t find anything on the market that can compete with it both in terms of features and pricing. The EliteMini H31G compares very favorably with the big brands out there. Add in the cost of WIndows 10 Pro, the 3-year warranty and the opportunity cost associated with building the PC and you’re better off just buying it. The third potential option is to build it yourself using the $399 barebone unit however we’re very dubious that you can get an Intel Core i7-9700F processor, 8GB RAM and a 256GB PCIe SSD for $350. The HYSTOU has 8GB RAM and an Intel Core i7-7920HQ (quad-core/eight-threads) while the NVISEN has 16GB of RAM and an Intel Core I7-9750H (six-cores/12-threads). Two models however are worth considering from Banggood, the $660 HYSTOU F8 (opens in new tab) and the $810 NVISEN Y-GX01 (opens in new tab) both of them have a 256GB SSD and a more powerful Nvidia Geforce GTX1650 GPU. Aliexpress is awash with similar products that seem to originate from the same ODM (Original Design Manufacturer) but are slightly more expensive at just under $1000. It’s a different story altogether in China where Minisforum hails from. We couldn’t find anything comparable in the US the PCs were either too expensive or, if they retailed for roughly the same price, didn’t include the graphics card. Rivals to the H31G need to have a small form factor and the exact configuration which includes the Geforce card. We’re splitting hairs here though as these numbers are perfectly acceptable for all but some edge cases. Let’s start with the graphics the card is about twice as fast as the fastest integrated GPU we tested to date, the one on the Honor MagicBook Pro which comes with an integrated Vega GPU with 6 compute units clocked up to 1.5GHz.Ĭomputewise, its eight cores give it the edge on most other systems we’ve tested (bar the monstrous XMG Apex 15 (opens in new tab) which has 16 cores) while the storage subsystem is a slight disappointment nudging only 1.57GBps and 1.27GBps on read/write under CrystalDiskMark. The performance of the H31G was understandably mind-blowing for a device that, let’s not forget, costs less than $800 and comes with eight cores and a discrete Geforce GTX1050 Ti GPU, a workstation that can be crammed and packed into a backpack without much issue. Here’s how the EliteMini H31G performed in our suite of benchmark tests:ĬPU-Z: 558.9 (single-thread) 4331.8 (multi-thread) There’s no room for any 3.5-inch components but you can plug in a 2.5-inch SATA device (HDD or SSD) plus an M.2 2242 SATA SSD and an M.2 2280 PCIe SSD. Storage expansion inside the device is actually pretty good. A 256GB Kingston PCIe SSD, an Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 connectivity chip, Windows 10 Pro and a massive 148W brick-like power supply unit that weighs 800g accompany the H31G. There’s also 8GB memory in a single slot, missing out of the dual-channel configuration. A pair of fans with four copper pipes are tasked with cooling the overall system which under load can generate more than 100W of heat. Instead, there’s an Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050 Ti (soldered onto the motherboard) with 4GB GDDR5 memory. Note that it doesn’t have hyperthreading or integrated graphics. It has eight cores and eight threads with 12MB cache, a base/turbo frequency of 3GHz/4.7GHz respectively and a TDP of 65W. Ports: 4 x USB 3.1, 1 x USB Typ-C DisplayPort, microSD Card reader audio jack, 1 x HDMIĬonnectivity: Intel AX200, 802.11ac Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.1Īt the heart of the EliteMini H31G is the Intel Core i7-9700F, a Coffee Lake processor which is one of the last to be built using a 14nm process. Here are the full specs of the EliteMini H31G configuration sent to TechRadar Pro for review:
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