This Newly Launched Mini Gaming PC Just Might Rival Gaming Laptops

GMKTec has conscionable launched its latest mini gaming PC, the Evo-X. It uses the aforesaid AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 down the fantabulous Asus ROG Flow Z13.

The GMKTec Evo-X basal configuration besides features 64GB of LPDDR5 representation and a 1TB NVMe SSD. Upgrading to the adjacent exemplary doubles those capacities. The institution has besides integrated a three-fan solution and plentiful connectivity options, including 5 USB Type-A ports, 2 precocious velocity USB4s, a microSD paper reader, Bluetooth 5.4, and Wi-Fi 7.

Of course, it’s yet to beryllium determined conscionable however this strategy volition perform. How it handles vigor tin marque oregon interruption a instrumentality similar this. If it works well, however, it could beryllium a large solution for fans of tiny signifier origin computing.

Just brace yourself for a spot of sticker shock. These benignant of specs packed into a tiny bundle don’t travel cheap. But, if you're looking for the adjacent large mini PC, the GMKTec Evo-X starts astatine $1,499 for the 64GB/1TB mentation and jumps to $1,999 for the 128GB/2TB.

Deceptively Small

Given that this PC is lone arsenic large arsenic a tiny weapon block, it offers awesome specs that should result successful large show whether you’re a gamer, creative, oregon enactment regularly with AI. Mini-PCs get much almighty each the clip and tin beryllium a viable alternate to a full-size desktop, but it’s not communal that they tin regenerate a strategy with a dedicated GPU. This strategy does person the aforesaid APU arsenic the Asus ROG Flow Z13, though, and successful my reappraisal of that system, it traded blows with the laptop mentation of the Nvidia RTX 4060. However, these are 2 antithetic systems, and we won't cognize however the GMKTec Evo-X volition really execute until we tin get it in-house for testing.

Still these specs look large for modern games astatine mean settings, and should beryllium capable to grip originative workloads, too. Even if you privation to dip your toes into AI, this mini PC should person nary occupation handling section AI tasks acknowledgment to its dedicated neural processor.

Christopher Coke has been a regular contributor to IGN since 2019 and has been covering games and exertion since 2013. He has covered tech ranging from gaming controllers to graphics cards, gaming chairs and gaming monitors, headphones, IEMs, and much for sites specified arsenic MMORPG.com, Tom’s Hardware, Popular Science, USA Today’s Reviewed, and Popular Mechanics. Find Chris connected Twitter @gamebynight.