News Gigabyte's New Ryzen 7030 Brix Allegedly Up to 140% Faster Than Intel Predecessors

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Gigabyte touts impressive CPU and GPU performance increase delivered by Ryzen 7030 powered Brix, compared to previous gen Intel models.

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[Hooda Thunkett]

Part of me wants something like this, only designed so I can slot it into the back of my TV. Just slide it in until it locks. No cords, no trying to find space for it in my entertainment system, no looking for another electrical socket, just clean and invisible until I select it on my TV menu. And upgradeable by slotting in a new one when it's available. Might also be great for consoles, set top boxes, and DVRs (if those are still a thing.)
And then part of me doesn't want to deal with the inherent design limitations of such a system. Power? Cooling? Getting everything you want in that tiny space? Eech.

 

[evdjj3j]

Brix. Who thought that was a good name for a computer?

 

[drtweak]

Part of me wants something like this, only designed so I can slot it into the back of my TV. Just slide it in until it locks. No cords, no trying to find space for it in my entertainment system, no looking for another electrical socket, just clean and invisible until I select it on my TV menu. And upgradeable by slotting in a new one when it's available. Might also be great for consoles, set top boxes, and DVRs (if those are still a thing.)
And then part of me doesn't want to deal with the inherent design limitations of such a system. Power? Cooling? Getting everything you want in that tiny space? Eech.

Have a client who is a middle man for electronic component sales, and they had a vendor trying to sell that. It was a 55 inch Touch screen TV with Android built in and then a PC. Was unbranded so no idea on that but the PC was removeable but not sure about upgradability. I would assume so. It seemed like a micro PC of some kind with some large interface that you would normally see on blade systems with their big black connector and 100's of pins. Think it was only 2-3 rows of pin and about 2-3 inches long. the connector was only for power and display output. Everything else connected to the PC directly. Was pretty cool.

 

[citral23]

That's... one way to present it. Another way would be to remind that vega apus can barely sustain 30 fps at 720p on anything. There's little reason not to go for rdna2 today.

 

[sarcophagus_macabre]

Part of me wants something like this, only designed so I can slot it into the back of my TV. Just slide it in until it locks. No cords, no trying to find space for it in my entertainment system, no looking for another electrical socket, just clean and invisible until I select it on my TV menu. And upgradeable by slotting in a new one when it's available. Might also be great for consoles, set top boxes, and DVRs (if those are still a thing.)
And then part of me doesn't want to deal with the inherent design limitations of such a system. Power? Cooling? Getting everything you want in that tiny space? Eech.

...comes with a VESA mount that allows you to do that very thing...

 

[usertests]

That's... one way to present it. Another way would be to remind that vega apus can barely sustain 30 fps at 720p on anything. There's little reason not to go for rdna2 today.

Yeah, Barcelo-R is a tough sell when there are cheap Rembrandt systems (7735HS) around.

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[citral23]

Yeah, Barcelo-R is a tough sell when there are cheap Rembrandt systems (7735HS) around.

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I know right? Tom's hardware is having a questionable "twist" habit of late, especially on Nvidia but it seems to spill over other products lately...

 

[purpleduggy]

Part of me wants something like this, only designed so I can slot it into the back of my TV. Just slide it in until it locks. No cords, no trying to find space for it in my entertainment system, no looking for another electrical socket, just clean and invisible until I select it on my TV menu. And upgradeable by slotting in a new one when it's available. Might also be great for consoles, set top boxes, and DVRs (if those are still a thing.)
And then part of me doesn't want to deal with the inherent design limitations of such a system. Power? Cooling? Getting everything you want in that tiny space? Eech.

would be great to have these minipcs have standardized connections and size that can slot in on rails. the amount of wallwarts on these devices is ridiculous if you consider how easy it would be create an elegant and clean solution. we can try though, by taking the most sold version of it, the Mac mini and making a 3d printed dock with built in connections. getting companies to form a standardization is difficult, they would prefer to make mountains of hyper specialized e-waste.

 

[purpleduggy]

I think these will eventually replace desktops. My only problem is that EVERYONE skimps out on adding Thunderbolt 4 ports. If it was up to me all X86 computers by law should have a minimum of 6x Thunderbolt 4 connections.

 

[bit_user]

Was unbranded so no idea on that but the PC was removeable but not sure about upgradability. I would assume so. It seemed like a micro PC of some kind with some large interface that you would normally see on blade systems with their big black connector and 100's of pins. Think it was only 2-3 rows of pin and about 2-3 inches long. the connector was only for power and display output. Everything else connected to the PC directly. Was pretty cool.

Maybe an Intel NUC Element?

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Probably not, though. If I understand correctly, only the NUC Extreme Element has ports directly on the compute module. The standard NUC Element seems to have no external connectors on the compute module.

 

[bit_user]

That's... one way to present it. Another way would be to remind that vega apus can barely sustain 30 fps at 720p on anything. There's little reason not to go for rdna2 today.

Yeah, it seems like a Ryzen 6000 would've been a much better choice. Zen 3+ on TSMC N6 + RDNA2 graphics.

IMO, that's what should've been the 7030-series. 7020 should've been used for their rebranding of 7nm Ryzen 5000 APUs.

 

[bit_user]

I think these will eventually replace desktops.

Not when high-end CPUs and GPUs are getting more power-hungry, year-by-year, with all signs pointing towards the trend continuing.

For most people, sure. Anything you can do on a laptop with only an iGPU, you can already do on a good mini-PC. And that's enough compute power for typical non-gamers.

 

[usertests]

Not when high-end CPUs and GPUs are getting more power-hungry, year-by-year, with all signs pointing towards the trend continuing.

For most people, sure. Anything you can do on a laptop with only an iGPU, you can already do on a good mini-PC. And that's enough compute power for typical non-gamers.

"Strix Halo"/"Sarlak" would probably be the end of full desktops with discrete GPUs for me if it's real. 16-core Zen 5/5C + 40 CUs RDNA 3.5 + 256-bit LPDDR5X memory controller, and it could be used in mini PCs. Almost none of it would be upgradable, but maybe the emerging CAMM standard can allow LPDDR memory upgrades.

A normal Strix Point APU with a modest iGPU improvement over Phoenix should be enough for 1080p60 gaming.

For non-gamer, non-professionals, a lowly Intel Processor N100 might be enough compute power. Or Meteor Lake with dedicated AI accelerator for more impressive results, or AMD equivalent, or whatever old junk you can find on eBay.

 

[purpleduggy]

Not when high-end CPUs and GPUs are getting more power-hungry, year-by-year, with all signs pointing towards the trend continuing.

For most people, sure. Anything you can do on a laptop with only an iGPU, you can already do on a good mini-PC. And that's enough compute power for typical non-gamers.

If these Mini PCs all had thunderbolt 4 like the high end Intel NUCs (thunderbolt is not that expensive, its some chips and power handling), they can use external GPUs. I have an 11th gen i7 MiniPc with a Razer Core X external GPU enclosure with RTX3080Ti in it, over Thunderbolt that can play pretty much anything. I use it in my living room as a streaming/gaming setup.

 

[drtweak]

Maybe an Intel NUC Element?

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Probably not, though. If I understand correctly, only the NUC Extreme Element has ports directly on the compute module. The standard NUC Element seems to have no external connectors on the compute module.

it could have been. It was if you took like a Micro PC from the OEMS like Dell, tossed on a huge PCIe looking connector that slotted in. Now you could also plug in a barrel connector and VGA etc too and run standalone. I took pics, but this was like 5-6 years ago. Was running 4th Gen intel when like 7-8 was main stream.