With all this computing power in such a small package, these issues shouldn’t be a huge surprise.
What was less expected was how expensive the A8 can be, especially outside the USA.
Compared with similarly specced machines by GMKtec and Minisforum, the cost, even in America, is high.
American customers can get the Ryzen 7 variant for $699 and the Ryzen 9 model for $849.
Air is drawn through the perforated sides and expelled via a vent above the I/O area on the rear.
This design is mildly disappointing because access to the inside is far from straightforward.
Those are eight cores and sixteen threads.
Adjustable across this range are the base and boost clocks, the GPU clock and the TPD power range.
It also has sixteen Ryzen AI TOPS, and has twelve Compute Units on the 780M GPU.
If this chip has an Achilles heel, it’s the Radeon 780M.
Two aspects of these results are worth noting.
In many graphical tests, the GPU is the performance bottleneck and couldn’t go much faster.
However, it may also have contributed to the warm running and fan noise we encountered on this machine.
Should I buy a Geekom A8?
It also offers AI-specific processing features.
With AMD-powered machines, this is as good as it gets.
But it’s another powerful small system to consider.
Unfortunately, it also sports a USB 4.0 port, but it does not have Thunderbolt.
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