Compact AMD-powered Minisforum PC launches with dGPU support and affordable starting price

Minisforum has introduced an AMD-powered compact PC, the 895D7. It's powered by the Ryzen 9 8945HX MoDT platform, and the company highlights that the APU can reach a TDP of 100W in the Balance Mode.

For reference, the AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX is from the Dragon Range refresh lineup, and it features 16 Zen 4 cores and has the AMD Radeon 610M. While that iGPU can only do basic tasks and handle lightweight to moderate media needs, the compact PC has support for a desktop GPU.

More specifically, Minisforum is offering a configuration with the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB dGPU, which is an upper mid-range GPU that can do 1440p gaming. The company mentions another option with the Nvidia RTX 5060, but currently, it's not available to purchase (Zotac low-profile available on Amazon).

This dGPU sits on the PCIe 5.0 x16 slot of the MoDT board, and as it seems, the GPU needs to have a low-profile design to fit within the chassis. The motherboard also has dual SO-DIMM slots that can hold up to 96GB of DDR5 RAM running at 5200 MT/s.

As for storage, there are two M.2 slots that can be equipped with PCIe 4.0x4 SSDs, and while Minisforum says that the total storage support is 8TB, each of them should be able to hold an 8TB SSD. Nonetheless, there's a decent selection of connectivity ports as well, including:

• 2x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A
• 1x HDMI 2.1
• 1x DisplayPort 1.4
• 1x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C
• 1x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-C
• 3x USB 2.0 Type-A
• 1x 2.5GbE LAN
• 1x audio out
• 1x microphone jack

A multi-sided airflow design, sleek 8.47-liter chassis, and WiFi 7 are the other notable highlights of this AMD PC. Minsiforum is offering the barebone variant at an affordable price, $495. The configuration with 9060 XT starts at $1,119, and there's an option to get the system with 32GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD.