MINISFORUM EliteMini AI370 mini PC with Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 goes up for pre-order October 28

The MINISFORUM EliteMini AI370 is a 5.12″ x 5″ x 1.85″ computer powered by an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 “Strix Point” 12-core processor with Radeon 890M integrated graphics and a Ryzen AI NPU that delivers up to 50 TOPS of AI performance.

It’s one of only a handful of mini PCs announced to feature a Strix Point processor, and the EliteMini AI370 is set to go up for pre-order on October 28, 2024 at 7:00PM Pacific Time. MINISFORUM hasn’t announced how much the computer will cost yet, but the company says customers who sign up in advance will get a discount code that knocks $50 off the price tag shortly before pre-orders begin.

MINISFORUM’s product page fore the EliteMini AI370 seems to be missing some key details at time of publication, but a peek at the source code confirms the October 28th launch date, and the folks at NotebookCheck and Ajleeblog save some pictures and took some notes while the pages were live, so we know that the system has a set of ports that includes:

• 1 x HDMI
• 1 x DisplayPort
• 1 x USB4
• 4 x USB Type-A
• 2 x 2.5 GbE LAN
• 1 x 3.5mm audio

There’s no OCuLink connector, which means that anyone looking to connect an external GPU will be limited to using the 40 Gbps USB4 port (although real-world data throughput may be even lower than that).

But with integrated graphics featuring 16 RDNA 3.5 GPU cores, you may not need an external graphics card for some basic gaming, video workstation, or other GPU-heavy applications.

So far the only other mini PCs with AMD Strix Point processors that I’ve seen are the Beelink SER9 (which currently sells for $999 and up), and the AAOSTAR GEM10 370, which isnt’ yet available for purchase.