Minisforum AI X1 – Ryzen 9 AI Mini PC Review

Introduction and unboxing

If you are looking for a powerful Windows mini PC, Miniforum AI X1 is definitely worth the idea. Coming only at 0.6 kg and a 4Nm AMD Ryzen AI 9365 is capable of 64 GB or even 96 GB DDR5 RAM, and the price below $ 900/€ 1,000 seems impressive on paper.

Minisforum is a good track record and a PC manufacturer with a diverse product lineup. You can find its products on Amazon in America, UK and Germany, which is very good. AI X1 is in its major class of mini PC. It does an HDMI cable, an power supply, a mounting bracket (if you want to attach it to your desk or monitor), and ship with an alternative Oculink port.

Here is a close look at Mounting Bracket, complete with Philips screws.

And here is Oculink Adapter. It plugs into the second PCIe 4.0 slot and takes advantage of its 40gbps bandwidth for use with the outer GPU. So you can either expand the graphics capabilities of this mini-PC, or add another M.2 SSD.

Supplied Okulink Connector

Design and port

Minisforum A1 X1 is light and compact. 12.8 cm wide, 12.6 cm long, 5.2 cm long, and weighing 0.6 kg, it is similar to the Mac Mini M4 (12.7 cm x 12.7 cm x 5.1 cm, 0.7kg). The A1 X1 is mostly made of metal with ventilation grills to the left and right, and a plastic rear where the heat sink and most ports remain.

You have a pair of upfront, a pair of stickers, power button, USB-A 3.2 Gen 2 (10 GBPS) port, a USB 4 Type-C (40 GBPS) port, a 3.5mm audio jack and even a pair of microphones.

On the back, you have a power supply port, an RJ45 2.5g Ethernet port, a displayport 2.0 (up to 4K up 240Hz, up to 60Hz), Oculink port (if unused with a rubber cover, a HDMI 2.1 (4k, 8k above 60Hz, 8k above 60Hz) Usb -assb -assb -assb-on-theasb-sb-sb-sb-sb-sb-sb-sb-sb-sb-sb-sb-steb-monb -asb-sb-steb-sb-steb-sb-steb-sb-acb-acb-sb-ne -isb -assb -assb -assb -assb-acb-acb-acb-acb-acb-acb -assb-60 (

There is a Kensington Security Slot on the right.

It is quite easy to open minisforum A1 X1. Just bottom four Philips-Hed screws (which are quite long) are ignoring, and you are inside. Keep in mind that you need to ignore two ribbon cables, before you can remove the panel below.

There is a look at the second PCIE port here that can accommodate either another M.2 SSD or Oculink port. You have easy access to the main SSD and two DDR5 Soimx2 slots.

Second PCIE Port for SSD or Oculink Port

Performance and fan noise

A1 X1 We have the top imagination unit for reviews. This means the most competent AMD Ryzen AI 9365 processor, 64 GB 5600mt/s DDR5 RAM, and 1 TB storage.

AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 chip is part of the Strike Point Family and was released in June 2024. This uses Zen 5 architecture built on the 4Nm process of TSMC. The processor has 10 physical core and 20 threads, a 2GHz base clock speed and a rising speed of 5GHz. There is Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4 support.

The graphics are controlled with a peak clock speed of 880 m and 2.9GHz underlying with 12 core.

We conducted a three -hour tension test at Ryzen AI 9365. The CPU was capable of maintaining an average clock speed of 3.4GHz (about 53W). The fan was continuously working to keep a slightly more CPU than 70 ° C, which made the mini PC a little audible in the office environment, but did not bother anything.

The outer part of the machine was warm to touch (but who touches his mini PC).

Naturally, we ran a group of benchmarks on Minissforam AI X1 to gauge its performance. The Ryzen processor is very powerful and yet efficient. Compared to the 10-core Apple M4, about 15% worse solo-core results are expected, but 10% better multi-core performance.

The Ryzen AI 9365 has a rapidly underlying GPU than the M4 and a more powerful NPU with about 50 tops (trillion of trillion per second) on M4.

Gambling

The built -in Radon 880m GPU is surprisingly capable while talking about gaming. We tested some games on it, and it managed to maintain 60fps at 1440p without any issue. We tried the Dirt 2.0, the series of penaltimet titles, and a significant demand was made on it. We found under just 60fps in maximum-out settings in 1080p. It was a similar story in the forza horizon – about 56fps in 1080p with settings on medium and high.

Civilization VI and age group II had no problem for 880m with a fixed version such as the title lock-on 60fps performance. GTA V at 1080p and hover under high 70fps.

If you want a smooth experience – then you need to reduce quality settings on 1080p in more demanded games like cyberpank 2077 – we achieved about 45FPS with most settings on high.

Overall, Radeon 880m is luxurious as far as the integrated GPUS is Go and Nvidia gives equivalent performance to RTX3050.

Radeon 880m a little gaming

1TB Kingston SSD (PCIE 4.0) was very fast, management of more than 6,000MB/s and speed of speed of more than 5,000MB/s.

conclusion

Miniforum AI X1 is a great option for a compact computing solution. Despite its low size, it offers exclusive performance and solid port selection. There are three USBs at the front and two great at the back (although we are one or two more type-CS instead of three type-AS).

Another plus in our book is the easy disassemam of this mini PC. A PC should be accessible and upgradable, and Minissforam has made the AI X1 correct in this regard. You can swap the RAM (if necessary), extend storage, and usually keep the device clean!

Then, there is configurationness on Minisforum’s website. You have the latest power of AMD – skilled processor – Ryzen 7 260, Ryzen 7 255, Ryzen 9 365 – and either 32GB/1TB, or 64GB/1TB option. And if you want to apply your own SSD and RAM, you can get the barebuon unit.

The price is also correct, especially at this time, lets you save between $ 100 and $ 200 depending on the configuration.

You can find a mini PC of your choice on Amazon in the US, UK and Germany, as well as on your website of Minissforam.