This $1,400 Steam Machine alternative houses a tiny desktop GPU

What if Valve’s Steam Machine were a 3.8-liter operation alternatively of a 3.8-liter cube, with a desktop-grade Nvidia RTX 5060 GPU alternatively of an AMD RX 7600 — positive a much almighty CPU and galore faster ports? Well, it’d outgo you astir $1,500 and beryllium called the Minisforum AtomMan G1 Pro.

Minisforum is 1 of the lone companies shipping specified almighty discrete GPUs successful mini-PCs, and its earlier AtomMan G7 PT is the closest happening anyone’s sold to Valve’s ain spec. But the caller G1 Pro mightiness beryllium a amended rival present it’s got an integrated powerfulness proviso (like Valve) and adjacent beefier components.

The astir astonishing diagnostic is simply a afloat but lilliputian desktop graphics paper — look however cute it is successful the render below! — that fits into the apical of the chassis. (Minisforum doesn’t assertion it’s upgradable, conscionable FYI, but does boast that it offers the afloat 145W of powerfulness you’d get successful different desktop 5060 cards.)

And, successful “Beast Mode,” Minisforum says it tin thrust the AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX CPU astatine 100W portion that GPU stays astatine 145W. You besides get not 1 but two M.2 2280 slots for NVMe SSD storage, 2 SO-DIMM slots for up to 96GB of DDR5 RAM, and five show outputs (2x DP2.1, 1x DP 1.4, and 2x HDMI 2.1) for up to 4 displays astatine once.

It’s connected merchantability present with 32GB and 1TB for $1,440, shipping mid January — which is honestly starting to look similar a decent woody present that RAM prices are retired of control. There’s besides a bring-your-own-RAM-and-storage barebones mentation for $1,040, though it’s not disposable to bid yet.

Valve inactive isn’t talking terms yet, but I’d anticipation it’s much affordable than this one. Even so, Valve says it enactment a batch of enactment into cooling, noise, and wireless connectivity, and Linux drivers are inactive much mature connected the AMD GPU broadside of things if you’re considering a Bazzite oregon SteamOS install. GamersNexus’ caller video does see Linux benchmarks for desktop RTX 5060, possibly cheque those out?