The Most Powerful X86 SBC We’ve Ever Tested! ASRock 7735U Hands-On Review, Its FAST
The Ryzen 7000 Series Apus: A Powerhouse in Small Form Factor
We're taking a closer look at the Ryzen 7000 series apus, specifically the integrated graphics version, and how it performs in various applications. With a medium-low mix we're actually getting an average of 81 FPS, looking really good. We wish we could go up to 1080 and get that steady 60, but unfortunately, you have to drop it down very low at 1080 on these iGPUs - it's just a harder one to run. However, the Ryzen 6000 and Ryzen 7000 with the 680M integrated graphics perform well in games, especially at lower resolutions like 720p.
GTA 5 has always run really well on these little apus, especially at 1080p with a high-normal mix and an average of around 80 FPS. We could go down to just normal across the board there and get an average of around 120 FPS if we threw a little more wattage at it. Running these games locked at 60 is totally fine with me, and locked at 60 it's only going to pull around 32 watts. This power consumption makes sense, considering the form factor of these apus.
Fighting Games on Ryzen 7000 Apus
Street Fighter 5 at 1080p High settings we're getting a constant 60 here - fighting games on these apus work out really well. Even with something like Injustice 2 at medium 1080p, it runs at 60 just fine. Mortal Kombat 11 with a low-medium mix at 1080p will run at 60 just fine as well. These results are consistent across various fighting games.
Spider-Man Miles Morales at 720p Low Settings
Running Spider-Man Miles Morales on these apus is quite interesting, especially considering the GPU does run at 2200 megahertz but was found a sweet spot at about 1900 megahertz on the GPU and 4 gigahertz on the CPU. This limits power from going over, allowing us to send enough power to the CPU and GPU to kind of run this game really smoothly, all while keeping power consumption in check. We're right there at 42 Watts with an average of around 65 FPS out of this game.
Cyberpunk 2077 Performance
We also took a look at Cyberpunk 2077 at 900p Steam Deck preset - we're getting an average of around 65 FPS out of this game, with the max burst being 79 Watts and CPU temps working great. We saw average gaming temperatures at 66 degrees Celsius and in a 10-minute cinnamon stress test, it hit 84 degrees Celsius but did not thermal throttle.
Power Consumption
The total system power consumption is definitely going to pull a lot more power than an arm-based single-board computer but this Apu definitely needs a lot more power to put out the kind of performance we saw in this video. At idle, it's pulling around 10 watts average gaming with 62 watts and the max burst being 79 Watts.
Cooling
CPU temps work great because we really don't have a case obstructing any kind of airflow here at idle temperatures were at 39 degrees Celsius average gaming was at 66 degrees Celsius, and in a 10-minute cinnamon stress test, it hit 84 degrees Celsius. However, the system is set to run at 95 from the BIOS but does have a fan curve that we can mess with from the BIOS if needed.
The Conclusion
Overall, the Ryzen 7000 Series Apus are definitely the best performing SBCs we've seen on the channel and expected it to be - powered by a Ryzen 7000 series Apu. These apus were built for industrial applications but are great for projects, especially in small form factors. We're excited to see what other projects these can help with.
The Future of These Apus
If you have any questions about running Linux on this, or want to test out Steam Deck OS, let us know in the comments below - we'd love to make another video and explore more possibilities.
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso yeah over the years we've definitely taken a look at a lot of x86 based singleboard computers but this one definitely Takes the Cake I mean I've never seen cyberpunk 2077 run like this on an SBC hey what's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at a seriously powerful single board computer from ASRock now this is actually powered by a ryzen 7000 series Apu and recently they released a few new Mini PCS the 4x4 line and when they released these they also released their singleboard computers and if you head over to the website you can see exactly what I'm talking about here so from their main ASRock industrial website if we head over to their products we can see single board computer the 4x4 line they also offer a Nook line but as you can see we've got the 4x4 7735u the 4x4 7535u or the D5 all the way down to the 2000 series embedded apus from AMD these boards aren't exactly an SBC because we do need to add storage and RAM basically what we have here is the main board from their mini PCS so you can pick this up without a case and everything and usually you can find these on eBay for a little cheaper but they're made for industrial applications but that doesn't mean we can't use this as our main PC for gaming emulation or even a media playback device and with the specs that this thing's rocking we can definitely get some AAA gaming out of the way on this SBC this does support sodium ddr5 and I've got 16 gigabytes here this did come Bare Bones and I had to add the ram Plus Storage it utilizes an m.2 nvme SSD and around back here if you want to call it the back we've got two ethernet ports a single gig and a 2.5 gig 2 USB 2.0 ports full-size HDMI and a full size display port and move it around to the front here we've got two usb4 ports these will support display out so we can do a total of four monitors connected to this unit plus we've got a single full-size USB 3.2 Gen 2 Port up here and a 3.5 millimeter audio jack since this came Bare Bones I did have to add RAM I went with 16 gigabytes of a data Ram so we've got two eight gig sticks running in dual Channel and it's running at 4 800 megahertz like I mentioned this is so dim ddr5 and when it comes to storage I just opted to use a cheaper Kingston 500 gigabyte nvme SSD but once it's all together we've got a very compact little design here now one thing I wish that was kind of sent along with it were some standoffs now if you don't have a pack of these I'll leave a link in the description you definitely need to pick these up if you do anything with a single board computers or any kind of electronics at all they come in handy for all kinds of applications and right here we've just got plastic standoff so I can actually set this up as feet on this unit and another thing I like to do with these sbcs is kind of set it up in the vertical orientation we'll take a look at that in a second but I just threw four feet on this to kind of keep it up off the table and to power this unit I've got a 120 watt power supply runs on 19 volts and this should be plenty for that ryzen 7000 series Apu so when it comes down to it basically what we have here is the AMD ryzen 7 7735u it's based on Zen 3 plus we've got eight cores 16 threads a base clock of 2.7 with a boost up to 4.75 little higher clock than the 6800u when it comes to integrated Graphics we've got the Radeon 680m it's based on our DNA 2 with 12 cus at 2200 megahertz I've got 16 gigabytes of ddr5 running at 4 800 megahertz but this will support up to 64 gigabytes it does support one pcie 4.0 m.2 SSD and I've got a 3.0 Drive in here it's that Kingston 500 gigabyte just a cheaper drive but it works out really well for the operating system we're going to be running Windows 11 Pro this should perform very similarly to their 4x4 Mini PC because we've basically got the same main board here now from the BIOS we do need to enable performance mode in order for this to go up to 40 Watts it actually does boost up to 50 and then come right back down to around 42 so we can send a lot of power to that GPU and CPU overall very Snappy system head over to ASRock industrial the singleboard computer section as you can see everything loads up really quickly and their 4x4 line is going to be powered by AMD if you're looking for a similar board with a Intel CPU check out their Nook line they've got new 13th gen units on the market right now and they are really powerful in the CPU department but if you're looking for a good GPU performance I would definitely go with their ryzen line 4K video playback is great on these chips here and it only pulls around 13 Watts with 4K 60 playback we're also using HDR here I've got my monitor set at 120 hertz and the next thing I did was just run a few benchmarks to see how this thing's really performing and first up geekbench 6 coming in with a single core of 1978 multi-9084. if we could throw a little more wattage at this we could definitely up both of these scores but at 40 Watts it's not looking bad at all moving over to some GPU benchmarks with 3D Mark I went with the wildlife just to test out this igpu's Vulcan performance we get a total score of 13 036 and the final one here is night raid with the 25 398. now with the ram here if we could overclock it we'd get much better out of this igpu really wish we had a setting and I've looked everywhere for it but we're kind of stuck right there at 4 800 megahertz if I could throw 5600 in here we could up this by about 5 000 points and it really does make a huge difference but either way even with this Ram running at 4 800 megahertz we can still get some AAA gaming out of the way on this SBC so let's go ahead and check that out and the first one here is dirt 5 at 720p with a medium low mix we're actually getting an average of 81 FPS looking really good I wish we could go up to 1080 and get that steady 60 but unfortunately you do have to drop it down very low at 1080 on these igpus it's just a harder one to run but you know I gotta say for the form factor here and we're only pulling around 42 Watts not bad GTA 5 has always run really well on these little apus especially ryzen 6000 ryzen 7000 with the 680m 1080p we've got a high normal mix and we're getting an average of around 80 FPS so we could go down to just normal across the board there and get an average of around 120. if I threw a little more wattage at it we could definitely up the frame right here but you know on a board like this running these games just locked at 60 is totally fine with me and locked at 60 it's only going to pull around 32 watts next up Street Fighter 5 1080p High settings we're getting a constant 60 here when it comes to fighting games on these apus it works out really well even with something like Injustice 2 at medium 1080p Mortal Kombat 11 with a low medium mix at 1080p will run at 60 just fine so fighting games are good to go on ryzen 7000 with these integrated 680m graphics Spider-Man Miles Morales 720p low settings now if you've ever tried to run this on any kind of integrated Graphics you know it can be all over the place and what I've found here with these uh 680m I gpus is set a static GPU clock and a static CPU clock so you can get kind of a steady 60 out of it I know it sounds a little odd because this GPU does run at 2200 megahertz but I found a sweet spot at about 1900 megahertz on the GPU and 4 gigahertz on the CPU kind of limits That Power from going over and at 40 Watts we can send enough to the CPU and GPU to kind of run this game really smoothly and finally here cyberpunk 2077 900p steam deck preset we're right there at 42 Watts we're getting an average of around 65 FPS out of this game got a couple dips coming real close to under 60 given uh you know our wattage isn't way up there and I don't have a static clock on the CPU and GPU I kind of Let It Go where it's going to go it does perform really well with this steam deck preset at 900p another thing I wanted to take a look at was just total system power consumption and this is definitely going to pull a lot more power than an arm-based singleboard computer but this definitely needs a lot more power to put out the kind of performance we saw in this video and at idle it's pulling around 10 watts average gaming 62 and the max burst that I saw out of this while maxing out the CPU and GPU was 79 Watts and CPU temps work great because we really don't have a case obstructing any kind of airflow here at idle 39 degrees Celsius average gaming 66 degrees Celsius and in a 10 minute cinnamon stress test we hit 84 degrees Celsius so it didn't thermal throttle it's actually set at 95 from the BIOS but we do have a fan curve that we can mess with from the BIOS if you needed it to spin up a little more and keep it cooler but since this thing isn't in the case does a really good job cooling that Apu off so overall definitely the best performing SBC that we've seen on the channel and you know I kind of expected it to be it's powered by a ryzen 7000 series Apu we've got a super small form factor here these are actually great for projects but like I mentioned these were built for industrial applications now you can pick these up on eBay and I will leave a few links in the description if you're interested in learning a little more I'll leave a link to asrock's website also but uh if there's anything else you want to see running on this just let me know in the comments below I'd love to test out you know Linux on this we could do Steam OS or Manjaro I personally think it would be awesome to see Steam deck OS running on this little board but it's really up to you so let me know what distro you want to see running on this in the future I don't mind making another video but that's going to wrap it up for this one if you've got any questions let me know down below like always thanks for watchingso yeah over the years we've definitely taken a look at a lot of x86 based singleboard computers but this one definitely Takes the Cake I mean I've never seen cyberpunk 2077 run like this on an SBC hey what's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at a seriously powerful single board computer from ASRock now this is actually powered by a ryzen 7000 series Apu and recently they released a few new Mini PCS the 4x4 line and when they released these they also released their singleboard computers and if you head over to the website you can see exactly what I'm talking about here so from their main ASRock industrial website if we head over to their products we can see single board computer the 4x4 line they also offer a Nook line but as you can see we've got the 4x4 7735u the 4x4 7535u or the D5 all the way down to the 2000 series embedded apus from AMD these boards aren't exactly an SBC because we do need to add storage and RAM basically what we have here is the main board from their mini PCS so you can pick this up without a case and everything and usually you can find these on eBay for a little cheaper but they're made for industrial applications but that doesn't mean we can't use this as our main PC for gaming emulation or even a media playback device and with the specs that this thing's rocking we can definitely get some AAA gaming out of the way on this SBC this does support sodium ddr5 and I've got 16 gigabytes here this did come Bare Bones and I had to add the ram Plus Storage it utilizes an m.2 nvme SSD and around back here if you want to call it the back we've got two ethernet ports a single gig and a 2.5 gig 2 USB 2.0 ports full-size HDMI and a full size display port and move it around to the front here we've got two usb4 ports these will support display out so we can do a total of four monitors connected to this unit plus we've got a single full-size USB 3.2 Gen 2 Port up here and a 3.5 millimeter audio jack since this came Bare Bones I did have to add RAM I went with 16 gigabytes of a data Ram so we've got two eight gig sticks running in dual Channel and it's running at 4 800 megahertz like I mentioned this is so dim ddr5 and when it comes to storage I just opted to use a cheaper Kingston 500 gigabyte nvme SSD but once it's all together we've got a very compact little design here now one thing I wish that was kind of sent along with it were some standoffs now if you don't have a pack of these I'll leave a link in the description you definitely need to pick these up if you do anything with a single board computers or any kind of electronics at all they come in handy for all kinds of applications and right here we've just got plastic standoff so I can actually set this up as feet on this unit and another thing I like to do with these sbcs is kind of set it up in the vertical orientation we'll take a look at that in a second but I just threw four feet on this to kind of keep it up off the table and to power this unit I've got a 120 watt power supply runs on 19 volts and this should be plenty for that ryzen 7000 series Apu so when it comes down to it basically what we have here is the AMD ryzen 7 7735u it's based on Zen 3 plus we've got eight cores 16 threads a base clock of 2.7 with a boost up to 4.75 little higher clock than the 6800u when it comes to integrated Graphics we've got the Radeon 680m it's based on our DNA 2 with 12 cus at 2200 megahertz I've got 16 gigabytes of ddr5 running at 4 800 megahertz but this will support up to 64 gigabytes it does support one pcie 4.0 m.2 SSD and I've got a 3.0 Drive in here it's that Kingston 500 gigabyte just a cheaper drive but it works out really well for the operating system we're going to be running Windows 11 Pro this should perform very similarly to their 4x4 Mini PC because we've basically got the same main board here now from the BIOS we do need to enable performance mode in order for this to go up to 40 Watts it actually does boost up to 50 and then come right back down to around 42 so we can send a lot of power to that GPU and CPU overall very Snappy system head over to ASRock industrial the singleboard computer section as you can see everything loads up really quickly and their 4x4 line is going to be powered by AMD if you're looking for a similar board with a Intel CPU check out their Nook line they've got new 13th gen units on the market right now and they are really powerful in the CPU department but if you're looking for a good GPU performance I would definitely go with their ryzen line 4K video playback is great on these chips here and it only pulls around 13 Watts with 4K 60 playback we're also using HDR here I've got my monitor set at 120 hertz and the next thing I did was just run a few benchmarks to see how this thing's really performing and first up geekbench 6 coming in with a single core of 1978 multi-9084. if we could throw a little more wattage at this we could definitely up both of these scores but at 40 Watts it's not looking bad at all moving over to some GPU benchmarks with 3D Mark I went with the wildlife just to test out this igpu's Vulcan performance we get a total score of 13 036 and the final one here is night raid with the 25 398. now with the ram here if we could overclock it we'd get much better out of this igpu really wish we had a setting and I've looked everywhere for it but we're kind of stuck right there at 4 800 megahertz if I could throw 5600 in here we could up this by about 5 000 points and it really does make a huge difference but either way even with this Ram running at 4 800 megahertz we can still get some AAA gaming out of the way on this SBC so let's go ahead and check that out and the first one here is dirt 5 at 720p with a medium low mix we're actually getting an average of 81 FPS looking really good I wish we could go up to 1080 and get that steady 60 but unfortunately you do have to drop it down very low at 1080 on these igpus it's just a harder one to run but you know I gotta say for the form factor here and we're only pulling around 42 Watts not bad GTA 5 has always run really well on these little apus especially ryzen 6000 ryzen 7000 with the 680m 1080p we've got a high normal mix and we're getting an average of around 80 FPS so we could go down to just normal across the board there and get an average of around 120. if I threw a little more wattage at it we could definitely up the frame right here but you know on a board like this running these games just locked at 60 is totally fine with me and locked at 60 it's only going to pull around 32 watts next up Street Fighter 5 1080p High settings we're getting a constant 60 here when it comes to fighting games on these apus it works out really well even with something like Injustice 2 at medium 1080p Mortal Kombat 11 with a low medium mix at 1080p will run at 60 just fine so fighting games are good to go on ryzen 7000 with these integrated 680m graphics Spider-Man Miles Morales 720p low settings now if you've ever tried to run this on any kind of integrated Graphics you know it can be all over the place and what I've found here with these uh 680m I gpus is set a static GPU clock and a static CPU clock so you can get kind of a steady 60 out of it I know it sounds a little odd because this GPU does run at 2200 megahertz but I found a sweet spot at about 1900 megahertz on the GPU and 4 gigahertz on the CPU kind of limits That Power from going over and at 40 Watts we can send enough to the CPU and GPU to kind of run this game really smoothly and finally here cyberpunk 2077 900p steam deck preset we're right there at 42 Watts we're getting an average of around 65 FPS out of this game got a couple dips coming real close to under 60 given uh you know our wattage isn't way up there and I don't have a static clock on the CPU and GPU I kind of Let It Go where it's going to go it does perform really well with this steam deck preset at 900p another thing I wanted to take a look at was just total system power consumption and this is definitely going to pull a lot more power than an arm-based singleboard computer but this definitely needs a lot more power to put out the kind of performance we saw in this video and at idle it's pulling around 10 watts average gaming 62 and the max burst that I saw out of this while maxing out the CPU and GPU was 79 Watts and CPU temps work great because we really don't have a case obstructing any kind of airflow here at idle 39 degrees Celsius average gaming 66 degrees Celsius and in a 10 minute cinnamon stress test we hit 84 degrees Celsius so it didn't thermal throttle it's actually set at 95 from the BIOS but we do have a fan curve that we can mess with from the BIOS if you needed it to spin up a little more and keep it cooler but since this thing isn't in the case does a really good job cooling that Apu off so overall definitely the best performing SBC that we've seen on the channel and you know I kind of expected it to be it's powered by a ryzen 7000 series Apu we've got a super small form factor here these are actually great for projects but like I mentioned these were built for industrial applications now you can pick these up on eBay and I will leave a few links in the description if you're interested in learning a little more I'll leave a link to asrock's website also but uh if there's anything else you want to see running on this just let me know in the comments below I'd love to test out you know Linux on this we could do Steam OS or Manjaro I personally think it would be awesome to see Steam deck OS running on this little board but it's really up to you so let me know what distro you want to see running on this in the future I don't mind making another video but that's going to wrap it up for this one if you've got any questions let me know down below like always thanks for watching\n"