Morefine M600 desktop PC review: Modern mini PC with AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX, 32 GB DDR5 and USB4

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Following the Morefine S600 Apex Engineer, the Chinese manufacturer has now also released a version of the system using up-to-date AMD SoCs. The cheaper model with an AMD Ryzen 5-6600U starts at $388 for a barebone version. The top-of-the-range model with an AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX could be bought for around $569 at the time of testing. The device can also be fitted with RAM and SSD - this brings our test system to a total of $809, which includes 32 GB DDR5 RAM, a 1 TB SSD, and Windows 11 Professional.
The Morefine M600 comes in an aesthetically pleasing and stable box complete with all required accessories, so your PC is ready to go immediately. Additionally, the box includes a VESA mount which you can use to mount the PC to an external monitor - internally the PC can be fitted with up to three SSDs. In this review, we put the Morefine M600 up against devices such as the Minisforum Venus Series UM690, the Minisforum Neptune Series NAD9, as well as the Morefine M600's predecessor. You can find a complete list of all these devices in the following table.
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Rating | Date | Model | Weight | Height | Best Price |
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85.5 % | 03/2023 | Morefine M600, 6900HX R9 6900HX, Radeon 680M | 779 g | 40.6 mm | |
01/2022 | Morefine S500+ R9 5900HX, Vega 8 | 697 g | 40 mm | ||
05/2022 | Minisforum EliteMini B550 R7 5700G, Vega 8 | 1.1 kg | 67 mm | ||
09/2022 | Minipc Union Ace Magician TK11-A0 i5-1135G7, Iris Xe G7 96EUs | 586 g | 53 mm | ||
10/2022 | Morefine S600-Apex Engineer i9-12900HK, Iris Xe G7 96EUs | 795 g | 63.5 mm | ||
86.6 % | 01/2023 | Minisforum Neptune Series NAD9 i9-12900H, Iris Xe G7 96EUs | 1.2 kg | 66 mm | |
78.9 % | 11/2022 | Intel NUC 12 Pro Kit NUC12WSKi7 i7-1260P, Iris Xe G7 96EUs | 511 g | 37 mm | |
86.1 % | 02/2023 | Minisforum Venus Series UM690 (6900HX) R9 6900HX, Radeon 680M | 621 g | 48 mm |
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Morefine M600 in detail
Case
Purely looks-wise, the Morefine M600 can be compared with its Intel counterpart, the Morefine S600 Apex Engineer. The case is mostly made out of an aluminium-magnesium alloy, giving the device excellent stability and a high-quality feel. The top of the case consists of a metal-reinforced plastic lid with an engraved pattern. Unfortunately, this is prone to getting scratched due to its high-shine surface.
Size-wise, our test sample lands somewhere in the middle and doesn't take up too much space on a desk. The Morefine M600 is also quite light, weighing in at only 779 grams. Compared to the Morefine S600 Apex Engineer, this PC's power adapter is considerably smaller. In our test sample, the 120-watt power adapter only weighed in at 372 grams.
Connectivity
Despite its compact design, the Morefine M600 has a surprisingly good number of ports. With 6 USB ports in total, most users will be more than satisfied. The same number of ports can be seen in the Minisforum Venus Series UM690. On the front of the compact PC, there is also a USB-C socket with Thunderbolt support, which widens its range of possible uses massively. In total, three monitors can be connected to the Morefine M600 simultaneously - either via HDMI, DisplayPort or USB-C.
Communication
The Morefine M600 features a Wi-Fi 6E module from Mediatek. In our practical test, in which we used our ROG Rapture GT-AXE11000 router from Asus as our test router, the Morefine M600 delivered above-average stable and consistent transfer rates. However, compared to the Minisforum Neptune Series NAD9, which has an Intel Wi-Fi 6E AX210, the Morefine M600 was considerably slower. In everyday use, we subjectively wouldn't notice too much of a difference between the two. If you are looking for faster data transfer, the PC is also fitted with two LAN sockets, which deliver speeds of up to 2.5 Gbit/s each.
Networking | |
iperf3 receive AXE11000 | |
Minisforum Neptune Series NAD9 | |
Morefine M600, 6900HX | |
Average MediaTek RZ608 (430 - 975, n=13) | |
Average of class Mini PC (192.9 - 1688, n=32, last 2 years) | |
Minisforum EliteMini B550 | |
Minipc Union Ace Magician TK11-A0 | |
iperf3 transmit AXE11000 | |
Minisforum Neptune Series NAD9 | |
Morefine M600, 6900HX | |
Average MediaTek RZ608 (572 - 979, n=13) | |
Average of class Mini PC (184.1 - 1491, n=32, last 2 years) | |
Minipc Union Ace Magician TK11-A0 | |
Minisforum EliteMini B550 |
Accessories
The PC also comes with a 120-watt power adapter and a VESA mount which can be used to fix the device directly to a monitor. Additionally, the manufacturer includes an HMDI cable and a connection cable for a 2.5-inch drive.
Maintenance
Similar to the Morefine S600 Apex Engineer, the Morefine M600 can be opened up easily. The top is connected with two screws which can be easily accessed from the back. On the bottom, the screws are hidden under the device's stuck-on feet. This is a little inconvenient if you ever need to take apart the bottom of the PC. There, you can find the fan and an M.2 slot, which was already fitted with an SSD in our test system.
Testing conditions
In all performance tests run with this device, we used the highest-performance energy profile. Deviations were made only in the power consumption and noise emission measurements in accordance with our test criteria. The CPU's performance as well as the cooling system's performance remained unchanged in the BIOS. There, the SoCs performance can be raised to 54 watts.
Processor
The AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX is a Rembrandt series 8-core processor with 16 threads, based on a Zen3 architecture chip. At load, the Morefine M600 showed short peaks of 65 watts before the PC stabilized at its 45-watt limit. This could already be seen with the Minisforum Venus Series UM690. Compared to its similarly kitted-out competitors, the Morefine M600 lost out in all CPU benchmarks - but only by 4 percentage points. The Morefine S600 Apex Engineer was a little faster, which could be put down to its Intel Core i9-12900HK. It features 14 cores and 20 threads, which means it achieved better multi-core performance rates than the AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX. Still, the difference between them was quite small. With the exception of the Ace Magician TK11-A0, all our test samples' results lay quite close together.
You can find more processor benchmarks here.
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AIDA64: FP32 Ray-Trace | FPU Julia | CPU SHA3 | CPU Queen | FPU SinJulia | FPU Mandel | CPU AES | CPU ZLib | FP64 Ray-Trace | CPU PhotoWorxx
Morefine M600 in the Cinebench R15 Multi Loop
The Cinebench R15 continuous loop gave us our first look at how well the device's integrated cooling system performed. On the whole, the AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX delivered a relatively stable performance of 1,900 points after 50 cycles.
System performance
The Morefine M600 performed well in the PCMark 10 system benchmark. It only achieved average results in the Crossmark test, although we measured good results in the RAM tests. Here, our test sample even landed in first place. In day-to-day use, the Morefine M600 performs well and can be compared with all of the other devices in our test.
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DPC latency
Using the tool LatencyMon, we already measured slightly increased latencies when opening multiple browser tabs. Playing 4K video and using Prime95 didn't result in any further increases.
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Storage devices
Our Morefine M600 sample was fitted with a 1-TB SSD from Crucial, specifically the Crucial P3 Plus. Attentive readers will notice that we actually performed our benchmarks using a different SSD. During our test, the built-in SSD malfunctioned, which meant we had to use a different model going forward. The Kingston KC3000 is also a PCle 4.0 NMVe SSD. We measured good transfer rates in our test with a few weaknesses when it came to continuous output.
The Morefine M600 can be fitted with up to 3 SSDs and you can even connect a 2.5-inch drive under the PC's lid - however, the drive can't exceed 9 millimetres in height. As previously mentioned, the cable required for this is included within the scope of delivery.
For more comparisons and benchmarks, take a look at our comparison table.
AS SSD | |
Score Total | |
Morefine M600, 6900HX | |
Minisforum Neptune Series NAD9 | |
Minisforum Venus Series UM690 (6900HX) | |
Morefine S600-Apex Engineer |