News Subor Z+ Console/PC Hybrid

Runamok81

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Nice catch. To summarize, its a 4.9L quad core Ryzen with a custom 24 CU Vega GPU. It boots into Windows, or a modified version of it. The fact that it is only 33db under load is impressive. Interested to see benchmarks. I'd expect 1060 levels of performance.
 

el01

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Jun 4, 2018
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https://www.anandtech.com/show/13381/subor-z-console-pc-hybrid-fireflight

Essentially it's a SFF prebuilt with a custom 4 core hyperthreaded 3 GHZ Zen processor (say that 5 times fast), 24CUs of Vega at 2.4 GHZ, and 8GB of GDDR5.

The case is interesting, also...



Here's the whole feature stack from AnandTech:
  • Four Ryzen Cores at 3.0 GHz, with Simultaneous Multi Threading
  • 24 CUs of Radeon Vega, at 1.3 GHz, for 4 TFLOPs compute
  • 8GB of GDDR5 at 256 GB/s
  • OS Option 1 (PC Mode): Windows 10
  • OS Option 2 (Console Mode): Windows 10 with Z+ Custom Interface
  • Low Power Modes supported, with 30W 'background download' power
  • 4.9 liter body, built-power supply, 'excellent' heat dissipation design
  • 'Ultra-Mute' 33 dB at full horsepower
  • Customizable appearance for unique designs
  • 802.11ac WiFi, BlueTooth 4.1 (WiFi Module unknown)
  • Storage is supplied through a 128GB M.2 SSD and optional 1TB HDD
  • Audio stack supports SPDIF
  • HDMI 2.0 is supported, as well as VR, 4K60, and HDCP 1.4
  • System has four USB 3.0 ports and two USB 2.0 ports
It also has a 128GB SSD (SATA) and an unspecified capacity HDD (I CAN'T READ THE TEXT!!!)

This thing might have potential as a gaming unit, HTPC, or emulator...
 

Windfall

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Nov 14, 2017
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https://www.anandtech.com/show/13381/subor-z-console-pc-hybrid-fireflight

Essentially it's a SFF prebuilt with a custom 4 core hyperthreaded 3 GHZ Zen processor (say that 5 times fast), 24CUs of Vega at 2.4 GHZ, and 8GB of GDDR5.

The case is interesting, also...



Here's the whole feature stack from AnandTech:
  • Four Ryzen Cores at 3.0 GHz, with Simultaneous Multi Threading
  • 24 CUs of Radeon Vega, at 1.3 GHz, for 4 TFLOPs compute
  • 8GB of GDDR5 at 256 GB/s
  • OS Option 1 (PC Mode): Windows 10
  • OS Option 2 (Console Mode): Windows 10 with Z+ Custom Interface
  • Low Power Modes supported, with 30W 'background download' power
  • 4.9 liter body, built-power supply, 'excellent' heat dissipation design
  • 'Ultra-Mute' 33 dB at full horsepower
  • Customizable appearance for unique designs
  • 802.11ac WiFi, BlueTooth 4.1 (WiFi Module unknown)
  • Storage is supplied through a 128GB M.2 SSD and optional 1TB HDD
  • Audio stack supports SPDIF
  • HDMI 2.0 is supported, as well as VR, 4K60, and HDCP 1.4
  • System has four USB 3.0 ports and two USB 2.0 ports
It also has a 128GB SSD (SATA) and an unspecified capacity HDD (I CAN'T READ THE TEXT!!!)

This thing might have potential as a gaming unit, HTPC, or emulator...

But it's bigger than my HTPC micro, and is packing nearly Identical, if not weaker, hardware.
Still really neat.
 
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Saici

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Mar 25, 2017
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But it's bigger than my HTPC micro, and is packing nearly Identical, if not weaker, hardware.
Still really neat.
The GPU is well above i7-8809G's 24 Vega CUs @1190MHz, and that already performs in the neighborhood on a GTX1060. https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Core-i7-8809G-SoC.275832.0.html
Extremely impressive for such a small package.
For the "console PC" itself ... yea, it's big, it's probably supposed to be cheap in manufacturing, user-serviceable and there's slot-ins for extra HDDs. also the 8GB of GDDR5 are also its RAM, not just dedicated to Graphics, which sucks.
But imagine what this AMD chip will be able to do for HTPC. Excited.
 

Hifihedgehog

Editor-in-chief of SFFPC.review
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May 3, 2016
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Dat gddr5 tho... want
The GDDR5 has me particularly curious about the CPU performance since Ryzen’s Infinity Fabric thrives off of high, fast memory clocks leading to better system responsiveness. I wonder what effects if any can be felt on the general computing side from GDDR5. Additionally, this is a preview of what is to come for next-generation consoles which will likely also use Ryzen with a unified memory system though likely with GDDR6 or HBM2.
 

Hifihedgehog

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May 3, 2016
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Definitely. :) I am extremely excited to see how well this works out for everyone who has hands-on time with this prebuilt small form factor gaming PC. I stumbled on this review from Digital Foundry earlier today and I wanted to share it. The graphics performance indeed is ever so slightly ahead of Kaby Lake-G. The CPU performance, however, is a bit of a deal breaker for me. Below also is their video portion of the review.

Review

 
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