
Recent years have seen a powerful new breed of integrated GPUs populating mini-PCs. Thus armed, such machines offer an economical and delightfully dinky way to game at 1080p. If you're looking for a compact PC with something closer to desktop-level games performance however, the options are rather thinner on the ground.
Machines which fold discrete GPUs into their design are both rarer and pricier, but they enable you to crank things up in terms of the resolutions, frame rates and graphics settings they can achieve. Pairing a 13th-gen Intel i7 mobile CPU with a laptop-grade RTX 4070, the Zotac Zbox Magnus EN does just this, and brings the fight to Asus' ROG NUC 970 and the Minisforum AtomMan G7 Ti in terms of 1440p games performance.