Minisforum has once again shown its high-performance Mini-ITX PC & motherboard line which will incorporate AMD's Ryzen 9 7945HX3D CPU.
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D CPU Lands On Mini-ITX Motherboards, Gives You All The 3D V-Cache Goodness In A 100W TDP Package
We know that Minisforum has a new Mini-ITX PC on the way which will feature motherboards that are equipped with AMD's Dragon Range and Intel's Raptor Lake CPUs. These chips will come in mobility iterations featuring a BGA design which means that the Mini-ITX boards will not be able to upgrade from their CPU specification but the rest of the board can be upgraded.
When we were initially presented the Mini-ITX motherboards at Computex 2023, we found out the AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX and Intel Core i9-13900HX variants but it looks like Minisforum already has a more powerful option for each camp in the works.
During a recent presentation, Minisforum once again showed the Mini-ITX motherboards which are now said to be equipped with up to Intel Core i9-13980HX 16-Core and AMD's Ryzen 9 7945HX3D 16-Core CPUs. The motherboards will support up to 100W TDPs and that should cover the baseline power requirements of both chips.
The Ryzen 9 7945HX3D was recently announced as AMD's fastest mobility gaming CPU, offering the 16-core 3D V-Cache option for laptops. This chip in a 100W TDP should be an absolute efficiency & gaming powerhouse. The cooling solution shown over the motherboards isn't finalized but renders of the Mini ITX PC show a vast heatsink array and a active-cooling solution over the motherboard. It should also be remembered that 3D V-cache chips usually perform really well even with low TDPs & while the chip isn't configured the same as its 120W and 170W+ desktop brethren, it should still be impressive in gaming and multi-threaded workloads.
It can also be seen that the PCIe Gen5 slot has a riser cable attached to it that leads to the main slot located on the outside of the chassis. The dGPU is attached outside of the chassis which means it'll have plenty of airflow but at the same time, it might become a dust magnet and the potential harm of setting a GPU outside the chassis should also be considered. The GPU shown is an RTX 4090 and that means almost any card will be able to connect with the Mini ITX chassis if you can feed it with the required power.
The whole point of bringing these mobile chips to the Mini ITX PC platform is that due to the limited size and power/thermal constraints, you can't necessarily bring full desktop-grade chips in such platforms but since mobility 16-core chips are designed around aggressive power targets, they make for a very compelling option for such builds and systems. Currently, there's no word on the pricing and availability of these Mini ITX PCs but we can expect more details by the end of this year.
AMD Ryzen 7045 "Dragon Range" Laptop CPUs:
| CPU Name | Family | Process Node | Architecture | Cores / Threads | Base / Boost Clock | L3 Cache | iGPU | iGPU Clock | TDP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D | Dragon Range-H | 5nm | Zen 4 | 16/32 | 2.3 / 5.4 GHz | 128 MB | Radeon 610M (RDNA 2 2 CU) | 400 MHz | 55W+ |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX | Dragon Range-H | 5nm | Zen 4 | 16/32 | 2.5 / 5.4 GHz | 64 MB | Radeon 610M (RDNA 2 2 CU) | 400 MHz | 55-75W+ |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7845HX | Dragon Range-H | 5nm | Zen 4 | 12/24 | 3.0 / 5.2 GHz | 64 MB | Radeon 610M (RDNA 2 2 CU) | 400 MHz | 45-75W+ |
| AMD Ryzen 7 7745HX | Dragon Range-H | 5nm | Zen 4 | 8/16 | 3.6 / 5.1 GHz | 32 MB | Radeon 610M (RDNA 2 2 CU) | 400 MHz | 45-75W+ |
| AMD Ryzen 7 7645HX | Dragon Range-H | 5nm | Zen 4 | 6/12 | 4.0 / 5.0 GHz | 32 MB | Radeon 610M (RDNA 2 2 CU) | 400 MHz | 45-75W+ |
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