AMD's Strix Point Ryzen APUs landed this year, and began rolling out in notebooks to a chorus of high praise. These smashing mobile processors come armed with AMD's new RDNA 3.5 integrated graphics architecture, aka the Radeon 890M. Laptop manufacturers often select low-power variants of APUs, or set lower TDP limits, in order to preserve battery life and minimise heat. That's prudent in a mobile context, but what if your use-case is the desktop? I say plug it in and give it all the watts!
Enter the Beelink SER9 mini PC, sporting the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370: AMD's top-shelf Strix Point APU. Yep, new chip generation, baffling new chip designation… it's almost like AMD is in competition with Intel not simply for market-share, but to see who can troll consumers the hardest.
