AMD's Ryzen processors take on Apple's M2 in mini PCs and laptops.
Beelink has launched the GTR7 and GTR7 Pro mini PCs, which are among the first compact desktop computers with AMD Ryzen 7040 “Phoenix” chips. The processors support up to 8 of AMD’s Zen 4 CPU cores, up to 12 RDNA 3 compute units, and up to 24MB of cache. The mini PCs feature 8-core, 16-thread chips with Radeon 780M integrated graphics as well as support for up to 64GB of DDR5-5600 memory and up to 8TB of PCIe 4.0 NVMe storage. The Ryzen 9 7940HS chip is only slightly faster than the Ryzen 7 7840HS, but the mini PCs are powerful with support for up to four displays and integrated graphics that rival entry-level discrete GPUs.