The Performance of the HM 90 Mini PC in Gaming and Emulation

I have a mix of medium and low settings, even then we still get dips under 60. You probably want to drop this all down below but I personally like seeing that track detail at medium GTA 5 900p normal settings. We got an average of 63 FPS again, I was hoping I'd get better out of this one and when it comes to the newer 5000 series APUs even though they're still using Vega Graphics, I've had much better luck with this specific game when it comes to the 3000 and the 4000. It does struggle a bit with Doom Eternal, another one of those games that really takes a toll on these APUs. We only got an average of 51 FPS at 720p low settings.

Finally for the PC gaming side of things, Cyberpunk 2077 720p low settings with the population density set to low we got an average of 31. So it's definitely not looking great here and we could drop the resolution scale down but I wanted to leave it at 100 just to see what it would do. Personally, I wouldn't really want to play it like this on the 4900H but now it's time to see how this thing performs with emulation. This is my favorite part of these videos and first up we have PS2 using PC SX2 DirectX 11 back in Gran Turismo 4.

1080p you're not going to have any issues with PS2 and some of these games can go up to 4K with this little setup checking out some Wii U using the Simu emulator breath of the wild Vulcan backend. We're still at 720p here and I did lock it to 30. Unfortunately, we just can't hit 60 even at 720p but I think it still looks good like this and it is fully playable as you see here, we're basically locked at 30 with this one.

This emulator has definitely come a long way especially when it comes to these integrated graphics and the final thing I tested here was some PS3 emulation using RPCS3. Here Skate 3 we're using that Vulcan backend in and this is one of those emulators with certain games that does take a lot of CPU performance to get up and running as you can see we're at 60 with this one, we definitely have enough CPU power but if we wanted to upscale any going up to 1080p the built-in Radeon graphics just aren't going to cut it since we're working with such a small form factor PC.

I always like to check out the CPU temps so I monitor it constantly through all of my tests and just running this PC in general at idle we're around 32 degrees Celsius with gaming and emulation we averaged 69 degrees Celsius across the board. In a 10-minute Cinebench R23 test we did hit 92 degrees Celsius but we didn't hit thermal throttle, it's set at 95 on this PC right out of the box.

When it comes to power consumption, it's actually doing a pretty good job at idle 18 Watts while gaming we average 63 watts and the maximum that I could get this to pull from the wall while maxing out all eight cores 16 threads and the built-in Radeon GPU was 88 Watts. So in the end we definitely have a powerful Mini PC especially when it comes to the CPU side of things. The iGPU is definitely lacking even with that overclock, I was hoping to see a little better performance and remember with the 4900H we're working with Zen 2.

Now minus Forum already has some 5000 series APU mini PCS out and they also have some 5000 series desktop mini PCS out that will definitely outperform this. This is coming in a bit cheaper but you know if it was up to me I would definitely go with Zen 3 in that 5000 series, but you know if you want to spend a little less money and you know you're not going to be doing any super heavy gaming on this then it would definitely work for your needs. I mean if you wanted to do some video editing on this or photo editing you're not going to have any issues with it. Eight cores 16 threads up to 4.4 and this thing does run up to 75 Watts so we really do have enough CPU power but when it comes to the GPU side of things it's a little underpowered even if we do some overclocking.

I've just had much better luck with the built-in Radeon graphics on the New Zen 3 5000 series, that's gonna wrap it up for this video. I really appreciate you watching if you're interested in learning more about this I will leave a few links in the description if there's anything else you want to see running on the HM 90 just let me know in the comments below and like always thanks for watching

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enforeign what's going on everybody it's ETA for I'm back here again today we're going to be taking a look at a ryzen 9 powered mini PC from Menace Forum known as the elite mini hm90 now this one's brand new to the market they're going to be offering this in a Bare Bones variety or with 16 to 32 gigabytes of RAM and 256 to 512 gigabytes of storage if you're a regular viewer of the channel you know I'm a big fan of these mini PCS specifically the AMD powered mini PCS and this one here is no different what we have is the ryzen 9 4900h up to 75 watts in this little thing when it comes to the design personally I'm a big fan of it we have that silver on top we've got that white bezel and the midsection is actually fully constructed of aluminum and just like the other mini PCS this one is super tiny as you can see I mean it's a palm-sized Mini PC with actually a lot of power we got eight cores and 16 threads in this one inside of the Box you're going to receive 120 watt power supply now with this new one they're actually using power over USB type-c but we can draw up to 70 5 Watts out of the CPU so that 120 watt brick really comes in handy you're also going to get your vase amount and some SATA hard drive connectors because this does support two 2.5 inch drives be it mechanical or SSD I would personally go with SSD in a little unit like this when it comes to i o on the front here we have our microphone input our headphone output two USB 3.0 ports and USB type-c and when it comes to this front USB type-c port it does support display out and we can do up to 4K 60 out of this one moving around to the sides there's not much going on here but this is where all the heat is ventilated they've actually got a new CPU Cooler design in here we'll take a look at that in a second but around back we have four more USB 3.0 ports two ethernet ports one of these is 2.5 the other is gigabit we have a full size display port full size HDMI and our USB type-c for power in that's the only thing this USB type-c around back supports moving over to the full specs of this little unit it's known as the elite mini hm90 we have the AMD ryzen 9 and 4 900h 8 course 16 threads we have a base clock of 3.3 gigahertz with a boost up to 4.4 when it comes to the built-in GPU it's a Radeon 8 at 1750 megahertz but we do have newer applications that allow us to overclock these integrated graphics and I can take this up to 2 000. with this unit here I have 16 gigabytes of ddr4 running at 3200 megahertz a 512 gigabyte m.2 SSD Wi-Fi 6 Bluetooth 5.1 and it will support Windows 10 or Windows 11. Out of the Box this came with Windows 10 home pre-installed when it comes to upgrades we can always change the ram out we can change that m.2 SSD and we can also add two 2.5 inch drives you can go mechanical or SSD comes with all of the hardware we need to mount it right in the base of this unit now the first thing I wanted to do was pull the main board out and take a look at this new CPU Cooler I'm actually digging the way they have this set up so basically what's going to happen here is we're drawing in air from the very top we have plenty of ventilation there and it's going to push the air out of both side sides of this Mini PC now when it comes down to it the 4900h is a mobile chip it's used in higher end gaming laptops and with this setup at 75 Watts it can definitely get hot but I think that this cooler is going to do a good job I kind of like this new design okay so here we are I've updated everything I've installed a lot of stuff to test here and the very first thing I always like to do with these mini PCS just seeing what kind of TDP it's running at out of the box I haven't changed anything in the Bios and if our GPU can keep up to speed if it's going to run at its maximum clock or not with this 4900h and the newest update to Apu tuning utility we do have the ability to overclock the built-in igpu and I've actually gone up to 2000 megahertz here it does work out pretty well what I want to do here is just run a stress test on that GPU we're going to start that render test if I go to my sensors you can see right up here we're running at 2 000 megahertz instead of 1750. so this is a little jump on that GPU and it does make a bit of a difference but as you can see we do have that ryzen 9 4900h 16 gigabytes of ddr4 running at 3 200 megahertz and the built-in Radeon 8 Graphics as you saw we have overclocked a bit there the next thing I always like to check out with these ryzen apus is the TDP what are we running at here because if this 4900h was only running at 15 watts we're just not going to get full potential out of it so right here I'm just going to run a prime 95 stress test and in the background I do have core temp running not the most efficient but uh as you can see this thing does go up to 75 Watts so we're gonna get plenty of power to this GPU and CPU with this thing and with it running like this we can reach the full potential of the 4900h in this Mini PC so the first test I ran were some benchmarks first up Cena bench R23 coming in with an 11 308 I thought we'd actually get a little more out of this ryzen 9 4900h but recently we've been testing a lot of the 5000 series and they do score much higher so I think this is right online with this chip next one I ran was PC Mark 10 we got a 5434 moving over to some GPU benchmarks with 3dmark night raid we got a 13 630 and finally fire strike with a 3179 it's not looking bad for integrated Graphics but these aren't the best scores that I've seen out of these igpus but these are benchmarks and now it's time to see how this thing can really game first up we have back for blood and I do want to give the developers props for this one I've had really good luck with this game on these AMD apus we got a medium low mix going here and from the settings I do have AMD FSR set to Performance it actually works really well by the end of this run here I have an average of 71 FPS out of these integrated Graphics this is just one of those games that does perform really well on igpus I always like to throw at least one fighting game at these mini PCS and here we have Marvel vs Capcom infinite 1080p medium low mix we're running at 60. this is looking really good and I will admit that most of this stuff is at low but the textures are set to medium CS go 1080p medium settings by the end of this run here I had an average of 97 FPS I was kind of hoping that I'd get a little more out of it but you know if we went through and dropped some of these settings down below you could but I'd say in the average of 97 medium settings on an igpu setup is still pretty good moving over to project cars 2 I know this is an older game but it's still one of my favorite racing games and when it comes to these igpus it does take a toll on them with this one here I had to drop it down to 900p I have a mix of medium and low settings and even then we still get dips under 60. you probably want to drop this all down below but I personally like seeing that track detail at medium GTA 5 900p normal settings we got an average of 63 FPS again I was hoping I'd get better out of this one and when it comes to the newer 5000 series apus even though they're still using Vega Graphics I've had much better luck with this specific game when it comes to the 3000 and the 4000 it does struggle a bit Doom Eternal another one of those games that really takes a toll on these apus 720p low settings we only got an average of 51 FPS and finally for the PC gaming side of things cyberpunk 2077 720p low settings with the population density set to low we got an average of 31. so it's definitely not looking great here and we could drop the resolution scale down but I wanted to leave it at 100 just to see what it would do I personally wouldn't really want to play it like this on the 4900h but now it's time to see how this thing performs with the emulation this is my favorite part of these videos and first up we have PS2 using PC sx2 DirectX 11 back in Gran Turismo 4 1080p you're not going to have any issues with PS2 and some of these games can go up to 4K with this little setup checking out some Wii U using the simu emulator breath of the wild Vulcan backend we're still at 720p here and I did lock it to 30. unfortunately we just can't hit 60 even at 720p but I think it still looks good like this and it is fully playable as you see here we're basically locked at 30 with this one and this emulator has definitely come a long way especially when it comes to these integrated graphics and the final thing I tested here was some PS3 emulation using rpcs3 here Skate 3 we're using that Vulcan back in and this is one of those emulators with certain games that does take a lot of CPU performance to get up and running as you can see we're at 60 with this one we definitely have enough CPU power but if we wanted to upscale any going up to 1080p the built-in Radeon graphics just aren't going to cut it since we're working with such a small form factor PC I always like to check out the CPU temps so I monitor it constantly through all of my tests and just running this PC in general at idle we're around 32 degrees Celsius with gaming and emulation we averaged 69 degrees Celsius across the board and in a 10 minute cinebench R23 test we did hit 92 degrees Celsius but we didn't hit thermal throttle it's set at 95 on this PC right out of the box when it comes to power consumption it's actually doing a pretty good job at idle 18 Watts while gaming we average 63 watts and the maximum that I could get this to pull from the wall while maxing out all eight cores 16 threads and the built-in Radeon GPU was 88 Watts so in the end we definitely have a powerful Mini PC especially when it comes to the CPU side of things the igpu is definitely lacking even with that overclock I was hoping to see a little better performance and remember with the 4900h we're working with Zen 2. now minus Forum already has some 5000 series Apu mini PCS out and they also have some 5000 series desktop mini PCS out that will definitely outperform this this is coming in a bit cheaper but you know if it was up to me I would definitely go with Zen 3 in that 5000 series but you know if you want to spend a little less money and you know you're not going to be doing any super heavy gaming on this then it would definitely work for your needs I mean if you wanted to do some video editing on this or photo editing you're not going to have any issues with it eight cores 16 threads up to 4.4 and this thing does run up to 75 Watts so we really do have enough CPU power but when it comes to the GPU side of things it's a little underpowered even if we do some overclocking I've just had much better luck with the built-in Radeon graphics on the New Zen 3 5000 series but that's gonna wrap it up for this video I really appreciate you watching if you're interested in learning more about this I will leave a few links in the description if there's anything else you want to see running on the HM 90 just let me know in the comments below and like always thanks for watching\n"