The most cost-effective way to get a mini-PC with a discrete GPU.
Capable of 1440p gaming, but pair this little bad boy with a 100Hz+ 1080p panel and you’re in high-frame rate heaven.Our experienced team dedicates many hours to every review, to really get to the heart of what matters most to you.Quite how AMD classes the Ryzen 9 7945HX as a mobile chip is beyond me.
From the outside, the AtomMan G7 PT is roughly the length and volume of a couple of Steam Decks smooshed face-to-face. It ships with a vertical stand, which you should definitely use as the cooling fans sit beneath each of the side-panels—laying it flat will almost certainly leave it gasping for breath. The stand itself is strongly magnetised, and the machine connects to it with a snug and physically satisfying snap.
The rest of the spec sheet is great. It supports two M.2 drives , is Wi-Fi7 and Bluetooth 5.3 compliant, and can take up to 96 GB of DDR5-5200 in the SODIMM format. For video output at the rear, you get HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 2.0, and a USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-C socket, which can also be used for charging and data transfer. Below this are three USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-A sockets, a 2.5G LAN port, and separate 3.5mm audio and mic jacks. Up front, you get another USB-C, another USB 3.2 Type-A, a 3.
Gaming, then, is largely contingent on the RX 7600M XT—a tiny GPU that excels at 1080p and can hold its own at 1440p, provided you're willing to compromise on a few detail settings. The benchmarks you see in the tables here don't really tell the full story however. To provide a solid comparison with other mini-PCs we've tested, our standard 1440p tests are all run at each game's Ultra preset, and that's not the G7 PT's strongest suit.
It's the same deal in Forza Motorsport, but in this case, demands are compounded by Forza's thirst for VRAM. Set the game to 1440p ultra with RT on, and you get a 'VRAM out of budget' warning, which results in a 38 fpsaverage with 1% lows of 26. Oof. Even on Ultra without RT, you're still over-budget.
It earns bonus brownie points for running cool and whisper-quiet even under heavy loads, and at an appropriate price-point to boot. There are mini-PCs out there which charge a similar price for less CPU performance, and rely on an iGPU using shared system-memory rather than a discrete GPU with 8GB of dedicated VRAM. Placed in that context, it's easy to recommend the AtomMan G7 PT.
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