A powerful mini PC with cutting-edge mobile tech, outstanding cooling, but oddly mercurial graphics performance.
The AtomMan X7 Ti is a small-footprint, high-quality PC with cutting-edge specs. It runs indies and older titles just great at 1080p, but throw anything more challenging at it and you can expect variable results.Our experienced team dedicates many hours to every review, to really get to the heart of what matters most to you.When it comes to ultra-compact gaming performance, the AtomMan X7 TI from Minisforum is something of an enigma.
The AtomMan X7 Ti is a touch larger than most of its mini-PC stablemates, but only a touch. You can bag it preloaded with 32 GB DDR5 and a 1 TB M.2 drive, or opt for the barebones version. That's the better deal here, as it'll save you a couple of hundred on the unit cost in order to shop around for cheaper RAM and storage.2x USB4C Thunderbolt, 2x USB 3.2, 1x USB 2.0, SD card reader, 3.5mm audio, 2x 5G LAN, 1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DP 2.
In performance mode, our test unit's CPU idled at around 1.3 GHz while nibbling a mere 6 W morsel. With the CPU and ARC iGPU synthetically turbo-maxing , it drew 65 W to hit its 5.1 GHz top speed. It then sat steady at 94 C°,16 degrees below the chip's TJMax, even after an extended period under load. The X7 Ti's Cold Wave cooling simply dealt with it, competently and at acceptable sound levels. And let's face it, no gaming load is going to stress the machine anywhere.
An Oculink setup requires a PCI-Express dock to mount your GPU in, which then connects via an Oculink cable to your PC. And if you don't have an Oculink slot in your PC, you need to find——a hole in your chassis to access an internal M.2 slot. Plus, your GPU and dock require their own PSU. When it comes to indie and older games, the X7 Ti does very nicely. The following titles were all run at 1080p with medium graphics settings, and both the Core Ultra 9 185H and the Ryzen 7 7940HS hit near-identical framerates. In Stray, the X7 Ti achieved 50-65 fps, Bioshock Remastered ran at an effortless 140-220 fps and Subnautica saw a pleasing 50-60 fps. Where the ARC iGPU excelled was Soulstone Survivors, beating the Radeon 780M's 45-90 fps with a score of 55-120 fps. So far so good.
The worst example was Warhammer 3; while both chips made 30 fps in the campaign benchmark, the battle engine saw the Core Ultra 9 hit 33 fps, which is 5 fps behind the Ryzen 7. No great shakes to be sure, but the experience was absolutely riddled with frequent and constant 1% lows, rendering it unplayable. This stuttering was apparent to a lesser degree in Warhammer 3's campaign benchmark, and occurred variously in all the AAA games I tested.
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