Minisforum UM690 (6900HX) Review

Today the UM690 follows up on our previous reviews of Minisforum mini PCs.  Unlike the previous two reviews, we now have RDNA2 graphics and Zen 3+ CPU cores, which should offer a significant uptick in performance across the board.  As you may recall from the UM480 review, I was not particularly impressed with the chassis that Minisforum picked for that PC.  That chassis makes an appearance again today with the UM690, albeit with a more powerful 120W power supply.  Keeping in previous themes of comparing these mini PC’s with equivalent ITX APU builds, I will be benchmarking the UM690 against both the HM90 and 5700G desktop APU, but to spice things up a bit I’ll also be including a 5700G + RX6400 LP card to see how 12CU’s of RDNA2 iGPU goodness matches up against 12CU’s of RDNA2 dGPU sadness.
 
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[confusis]

Fantastic review as always @IntoxicatedPuma !

Rigs like this tempt me so, but alas, the price tag is always out of reach.

 

[IntoxicatedPuma]

The next one will be the most exciting so far, and probably the one most worthy of the price

 

[zakius]

high tier mobile SKU's with a passive cooling would be lovely for work-only use