The new mini PC will be listed in the Minisforum's new product series - Neptune Series, which is for all their mini PCs with discrete graphics. Some of the upcoming products including AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX with AMD Radeon RX 6650M, AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX with AMD Radeon RX 6650M and Intel 12th gen Alder Lake with AMD discrete graphics. The first one will be HX90G, which is equipped with Ryzen 9 5900HX and Radeon RX6650M. It is also the world's first mini PC with AMD discrete graphics.

The HX90G will have the latest body design which is only 2.8L. It will have 7 heat pipes (3 for CPU and 4 for GPU) and dual smart fan inside, liquid metal for both CPU and GPU, The excellent heat dissipation design enables the HX90G to maintain relatively low noise even in full load. Besides CPU+GPU under 100% usage will consume 50 W and 100 W separately. It will use a 260 W power adapter. According to Minisforum, Radeon RX 6650M can run at 100% without performance loss.

Minisforum today announced the EliteMini HX90 mini PC featuring a liquid metal cooled AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX processor and integrated AMD Radeon Graphics. The AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX is an overclockable 8 core, 16 thread Zen 3 mobile processor with a base clock of 3.3 GHz and a boost clock of 4.6 GHz. The processor also includes integrated Radeon RX Vega 8 graphics running at 2.1 GHz which offers respectable integrated performance. This processor is cooled with a single cooling fan paired with a liquid metal thermal compound which Minisforum claims allows for 30 dB sound levels under full load. The EliteMini HX90 is constructed with carbon fiber materials and measures 195 x 190 x 60 mm with an integrated VESA mounting bracket while weighing in at 1.22 kg.

The HX90 includes two onboard DDR4 SO-DIMM memory slots which can support up to 64 GB of DDR4 3200 MHz memory. The PC also includes impressive storage options for a unit of its size with dual 2.5" drive bays and a full-size M.2 2280 slot. Minisforum has equipped the device with an Intel AX200 network card for Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.0 in addition to a 2.5 GbE Ethernet port, x5 USB 3.0 Gen 1, x1 USB-C, x2 HDMI, x2 DisplayPort, and four 3.5 mm audio connectors. This is all powered from an external 19 V 6.3 A DC power supply which supplies 119.7 W.

This is a big one: NVIDIA has officially announced a new family of products specifically designed to satiate the demand coming from cryptocurrency mining workloads and farms. At the same time, the company has announced that the RTX 3060 launch driver will include software limitations for cryptocurrency mining workloads specifically correlated with Ethereum mining, essentially halving the maximum theoretical hashrate that could be achieved from a purely hardware perspective. The new family of products, termed CMP (Crypto Mining Processor) series, will see its products under the HX branding, and will be available in four different tiers: 30HX, 40HX, 50HX and 90HX. These products will not have any display outputs, and therefore are not applicable for gaming scenarios.

NVIDIA's stance here is that their new product will bring some justice in the overall distribution of its GeForce graphics cards, which are marketed and meant for gaming workloads. The new cryptocurrency-geared series will be distributed by NVIDIA authorized partners in the form of ASUS, Colorful, EVGA, Gigabyte, MSI, Palit, and PC Partner (more may be added down the line). There is currently no information on what silicon actually powers these graphics cards; and of course, the success of this enterprise depends on A) the driver restrictions not being limited to the RTX 3060 graphics card - it isn't clear from NVIDIA's press release if other RTX 30-series graphics cards will see the same performance cap. Even if NVIDIA did release those drivers, however, cryptocurrency miners would just opt to, well, not update them. So it is possible that NVIDIA will release a revision of the RTX 3090, RTX 3080, RTX 3070 and RTX 3060 Ti with silicon enhancements that will only work with the latest GeForce drivers - after allowing the channels to move all of their existing, cryptocurrency-enabled stock.