**Low Settings Performance on Various Games and Emulators**

In this video, we put various games and emulators to the test on the Menance Forum HX90 mini PC, which is powered by an AMD Ryzen 5000 series mobile APU. We start with some popular titles like Doom Eternal, Cyberpunk 2077, and Forza 2, all of which are known to be demanding games that can push even the most powerful hardware to its limits.

We begin with Doom Eternal, which is a game that is notoriously difficult to run on integrated graphics. Even with the resolution scale set to off, we're only able to achieve an average frame rate of around 40 FPS at 900p. While this may not seem like a bad performance, it's actually quite disappointing considering the power of the Menance Forum HX90's APU. We also tested Cyberpunk 2077, which is another game that is notoriously difficult to run on integrated graphics. Even with the resolution scale set to off, we're only able to achieve an average frame rate of around 34 FPS at 720p.

In contrast, Forza 2 was able to run smoothly at 900p and even hit a steady 30 FPS at higher resolutions. However, even this game's performance is somewhat hampered by the limitations of its integrated graphics. We also tested other games like Minecraft and Rocket League, which were both able to run smoothly on the Menance Forum HX90.

In addition to gaming, we also tested some popular emulators, including Wii U Breath of the Wild, RPCS3 for PS3, and Skyrim. While these emulators can be demanding, even they are able to take advantage of the Menance Forum HX90's powerful APU. However, it's worth noting that the performance may vary depending on the specific emulator and game being tested.

**Emulation Performance**

One of the most impressive tests we conducted was with the RPCS3 PS3 emulator. We were able to run Skyrim smoothly at 900p with vulcan back-end rendering in async shaders, which is a feat that few other emulators can match. Additionally, we also tested out Forza Motorsport 4 and Gran Turismo 5, both of which ran smoothly at 900p. These results demonstrate the impressive performance capabilities of the Menance Forum HX90's APU.

In contrast, our test with the Wii U Breath of the Wild emulator was less successful. While we were able to run the game at 900p, we only achieved an average frame rate of around 30 FPS. This is likely due to the limitations of the Wii U's hardware, which are not well-suited for emulation.

**Performance and Power Consumption**

Finally, we took a look at the power consumption of the Menance Forum HX90 while running demanding games and emulators. We were able to achieve an average power consumption of around 68 watts, which is relatively high considering the system's compact size. However, this is likely due to the fact that the APU is still using its maximum power levels in order to run smoothly.

We also took a look at the power consumption while running our tests, and were able to achieve an average power consumption of around 18 watts at idle. This is relatively low considering the system's performance capabilities.

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, the Menance Forum HX90 mini PC is a powerful machine that is capable of handling demanding games and emulators with ease. While it may not be the most efficient or environmentally friendly option, its impressive performance capabilities make it an excellent choice for anyone looking to run complex software applications on a compact device.

We're also excited to announce that we'll be adding an external GPU to our next video, which will allow us to test out some of the more demanding games and emulators in even greater detail. Stay tuned for that upcoming video, and don't forget to check out the links in the description below for more information on this powerful mini PC.

**Next Steps**

In addition to testing the Menance Forum HX90's performance capabilities, we're also planning to add an external GPU to our system in order to test out some of the more demanding games and emulators. This will allow us to push the system to its limits and see just how well it performs.

We'll be using a high-end GPU such as the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 or higher, which should provide excellent performance capabilities for even the most demanding applications. We're also planning to test out some of the more popular gaming titles on this system, including Fortnite and Minecraft.

**Final Thoughts**

Overall, we were impressed with the performance capabilities of the Menance Forum HX90 mini PC. While it may not be the most efficient or environmentally friendly option, its impressive performance capabilities make it an excellent choice for anyone looking to run complex software applications on a compact device.

We're excited to continue testing out this powerful mini PC and see just how well it performs in various scenarios. Stay tuned for our next video, which will showcase the system's performance capabilities with an external GPU.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's going on guys cta prime back here again today i am super excited because we're going to be taking a look at the most powerful ryzen mobile apu powered mini pc that i've ever had the chance to get my hands on this is the all new this is the all new minis forum hx 90 and it's powered by the ryzen 5900 hx that's eight core 16 threads with a boost up to 4.6 gigahertz and built-in radeon 8 graphics running at 2100 megahertz and it's all shoved inside of a really nice looking case here we have that anodized blue aluminum and the fuselage itself is injection molded with carbon fiber composite materials it looks really really nice we've got some great ventilation on each side and plenty of i o now this isn't the smallest ryzen pc that i've taken a look at but when it comes to that 5900x and this being a mobile apu this should offer superior performance when you compare it to other mini pcs that are powered by mobile ryzen apus inside of the box we're obviously going to get the mini pc they've also included a 120 watt power supply we have a vasa bracket with all of the mounting hardware we've also got our sata cabling because this does support two 2.5 inch drives along with an m.2 drive that's already pre-installed and we get a six foot hdmi cable and our power cable for the power supply i gotta say i am a big fan of the design here i think it looks absolutely amazing we got that ventilation on top with those cool little geometric shapes and everything overall it's a great looking mini pc on the front here we have a full-size usb 3.0 port our audio in and out ports plus a usb type-c port this can be used for display out or you can just use it for data we also have our power button around back we have two full-size display ports two hdmi ports some more audio in and out a 2.5 gigabit ethernet port and four more usb 3.0 ports one thing i forgot to mention when i was doing the unboxing was this does come with a stand so we can set it up in the vertical orientation i think it kind of sets it off it does look really good and it's gonna look amazing next to a monitor when it comes to the internal specs we have the ryzen 9 5900 hx 8 16 threads base clock of 3.3 gigahertz with a boost up to 4.6 along with the pretty beefy cooler that they're using in this mini pc which we'll take a look at in a second they've opted to use liquid metal instead of regular old thermal compound which should definitely help out with temps for the gpu we have that built-in radeon 8 at 2100 megahertz and the unit i have on hand right now has 16 gigabytes of ddr4 running at 3 200 megahertz but this can be upgraded to 64 if you ever wanted to do that this does have ax wi-fi and bluetooth 5.0 built-in and this is running windows 10 home right out of the box but you could install linux if you wanted to i wanted to do a quick teardown but i'm not going to pull the cpu cooler off to see if they use liquid metal because i don't have any extra to replace it this does have a 512 gigabyte m.2 ssd and we have enough room inside of here to add two 2.5 inch ssds flipping the main board over gives us a look at that cpu cooler and ram plus this has a little daughter board hanging off the front this is our front i o ram is fully upgradable with sodim ram and this is a pretty beefy cooler when it comes to mini pcs if you take a close look you can see those dual heat pipes and the fan looks like it's free floating on top here but the case itself actually acts as the funnel if we take a look at the top here you can see that it has direct access to fresh air so we can pull it right in and push it over those fins so with all that out of the way let me go ahead and get this booted up i'm going to install some games some emulators and benchmarks for this video all right so here we are this has windows 10 home pre-installed as you can see we have that ryzen 9 5900 hx and this thing is an absolute beast i've been doing a little bit of testing with it 16 gigabytes of ddr4 running at 3 200 megahertz and the built-in radeon 8 graphics when it comes to these mini pcs powered by these mobile ryzen chips first thing i always like to do is just make sure that gpu can run at its maximum claw and we are at 2100 megahertz here in gpuz with the render test going and i've tested a couple games so far it will stay at 2100 megahertz so that's a big plus next thing i wanted to take a look at was the stock tdp so i have prime95 i'm just going to run a test here to stress it out and this is set at 50 watts from the factory you'll see it jump on up and this is definitely turning out to be the most powerful mini pc that i tested on this channel with a mobile ryzen apu if you wanted to pick something like this up and use it as your everyday desktop it's going to work out just fine email checking web browsing video editing photo editing this 5900 hx will definitely handle it we have that ax wi-fi built-in so everything loads up really quickly i am connected to my five gigahertz network at the house and another thing i always like to take a look at is webgl performance so we're going to start off here fps is in the top left hand corner over here we're at 60 500 fish 1000 5000 1000 15 20 25 we're still at 60 and at 30 000 fish that's when it dips down just a bit but uh it's definitely handling it really really well obviously video playback is going to be great on this whether you're streaming or doing it natively you could turn this into a little plex server we definitely have plenty of cores and threads to help out with that and overall this has been really snappy and i expected it to be given that we have those 8 cores and 16 threads running up to 4.6 gigahertz in this little pc i also ran some benchmarks and the first one on the list here is geekbench 5 single core 1485 multi 7573 looking great on the single and the multi so let's check out some gpu benchmarks with 3d mark first up night raid total score on this 15 192 fire strike gave us a 3490 and finally time spy with a 1 1338 so these scores aren't bad at all for a mobile chip with integrated graphics but we kind of need to see how this thing really handles gaming so first up here's kinchen impact 1080p medium settings we're running at 60. i did see it dipped down once there was a lot of particles on screen it went down to around 58 but overall it's holding pretty strong at 60 and this is playable next on the list forza horizon 4 1080p with a medium low mix we have a lot of low going on here but we got an average of 61 fps i was actually expecting to see a little more out of this but when it comes to the ram in this unit it's only running at 3 200 megahertz and having faster would definitely help out with this apu but faster sodim ram is really really expensive gta 5 actually did really well 1080p normal settings we got an average of 69 fps out of this one here's borderlands 3 1080p low settings we got an average of 64 fps but i did see it drop below 60 especially when some explosions were going on but overall i mean it's actually looking pretty decent if you drop this down to 900p i'm sure you could eliminate all of those drops under 60. here's where we had to start dropping the resolution down a little bit we have dirt 5 900 p low settings we got an average of 41 fps i've tested this on a lot of mobile apus and it's just a really hard game to run on integrated graphics here's doom eternal 900p low average of 40. now i do have the resolution scale set to off so we're at 100 resolution scale and dropping that down a little bit would help out a lot but running this at 720p low would net you around 63 average cyberpunk 2077 coming in at 720p low settings we got an average of 34fps and if you've ever tried to run this on any kind of integrated graphics you know it's a beast but uh we're over 30 here i was hoping we could get a little more out of it unfortunately that's just the way it is and finally we have control 720p low we only averaged 34 out of this one now if you wanted to lock it at half v-sync at 30 fps you should be good to go but now it's time to move over to my favorite part in these videos emulation first up wii u breath of the wild using simu we're at 900p vulcan back in async shaders it'll run in 30 all day i also tried this at 60 but we only got an average of around 48 fps and when taking this game up to 1080p i do get an average of 30 fps out of it but i did see it dropped down to around 28 every once in a while so i took it down to 900p and it actually runs pretty decently next up we have zinnia the xbox 360 emulator here's forza 2 and we can't quite hit 60 with this it really favors nvidia gpus but you know recently the 5000 series desktop apus were released and with some faster ram you can actually get this to run at full speed on those but with this mobile chip it's just really struggling and the final emulator i wanted to test here at least for this video was rpcs3 ps3 emulator we got skate three going vulcan back in 900p it's running at full speed and going into this i had a good feeling it would because this emulator really takes advantage of those extra cores and threads we have eight cores 16 threads and as you can see it's running it just fine whenever i test out these mini pcs i always like to take a look at power consumption and this is definitely going to be higher than some of the other ones given that we have that higher end 8 core cpu but at idle it only pulls 18 watts gaming we averaged 68 watts and the maximum that i could get this to pull from the wall while maxing out all eight cores 16 threads and the gpu was 89 watts from the wall and by the way i'm using a kilowatt meter this measures total system power consumption so yeah this thing is definitely a powerhouse for a mini pc i was hoping to see a little better gpu performance but you got to keep in mind that we're stuck at that clock of 2100 megahertz we really can't overclock it with the hx and when it comes down to it ram speed really makes a huge difference with these apus and we're kind of stuck at 3 200 megahertz unless you want to fork out the money for some really expensive fast or so dim ram but all in all this is the most powerful mini pc that i've tested on my channel that includes a mobile ryzen apu i've tested out more powerful mini pcs that i've personally built but those are using desktop variants so if you're looking for a high performance mini pc and the apps that you tend to use can actually take advantage of those 8 cores and 16 threads then i can highly recommend the menace forum hx90 now there is one more video that i want to do on this i'm going to add an external gpu over that m.2 slot so i'll be running my operating system and everything from a 2.5 inch drive but i got a really good feeling that if i pair this up with a gtx 1660 or something even higher in than that we're going to see amazing performance because on the cpu side of things we have plenty for anything we want to run it really comes down to that built-in radeon graphics that's kind of holding us back in gaming that video will be coming soon so definitely keep an eye on the channel but uh if you're interested in learning more about this i will leave a few links in the description and if there's anything else you want to see running on the menace forum hx90 just let me know in the comments below but that's going to wrap it up for this one and like always thanks for watchinghey what's going on guys cta prime back here again today i am super excited because we're going to be taking a look at the most powerful ryzen mobile apu powered mini pc that i've ever had the chance to get my hands on this is the all new this is the all new minis forum hx 90 and it's powered by the ryzen 5900 hx that's eight core 16 threads with a boost up to 4.6 gigahertz and built-in radeon 8 graphics running at 2100 megahertz and it's all shoved inside of a really nice looking case here we have that anodized blue aluminum and the fuselage itself is injection molded with carbon fiber composite materials it looks really really nice we've got some great ventilation on each side and plenty of i o now this isn't the smallest ryzen pc that i've taken a look at but when it comes to that 5900x and this being a mobile apu this should offer superior performance when you compare it to other mini pcs that are powered by mobile ryzen apus inside of the box we're obviously going to get the mini pc they've also included a 120 watt power supply we have a vasa bracket with all of the mounting hardware we've also got our sata cabling because this does support two 2.5 inch drives along with an m.2 drive that's already pre-installed and we get a six foot hdmi cable and our power cable for the power supply i gotta say i am a big fan of the design here i think it looks absolutely amazing we got that ventilation on top with those cool little geometric shapes and everything overall it's a great looking mini pc on the front here we have a full-size usb 3.0 port our audio in and out ports plus a usb type-c port this can be used for display out or you can just use it for data we also have our power button around back we have two full-size display ports two hdmi ports some more audio in and out a 2.5 gigabit ethernet port and four more usb 3.0 ports one thing i forgot to mention when i was doing the unboxing was this does come with a stand so we can set it up in the vertical orientation i think it kind of sets it off it does look really good and it's gonna look amazing next to a monitor when it comes to the internal specs we have the ryzen 9 5900 hx 8 16 threads base clock of 3.3 gigahertz with a boost up to 4.6 along with the pretty beefy cooler that they're using in this mini pc which we'll take a look at in a second they've opted to use liquid metal instead of regular old thermal compound which should definitely help out with temps for the gpu we have that built-in radeon 8 at 2100 megahertz and the unit i have on hand right now has 16 gigabytes of ddr4 running at 3 200 megahertz but this can be upgraded to 64 if you ever wanted to do that this does have ax wi-fi and bluetooth 5.0 built-in and this is running windows 10 home right out of the box but you could install linux if you wanted to i wanted to do a quick teardown but i'm not going to pull the cpu cooler off to see if they use liquid metal because i don't have any extra to replace it this does have a 512 gigabyte m.2 ssd and we have enough room inside of here to add two 2.5 inch ssds flipping the main board over gives us a look at that cpu cooler and ram plus this has a little daughter board hanging off the front this is our front i o ram is fully upgradable with sodim ram and this is a pretty beefy cooler when it comes to mini pcs if you take a close look you can see those dual heat pipes and the fan looks like it's free floating on top here but the case itself actually acts as the funnel if we take a look at the top here you can see that it has direct access to fresh air so we can pull it right in and push it over those fins so with all that out of the way let me go ahead and get this booted up i'm going to install some games some emulators and benchmarks for this video all right so here we are this has windows 10 home pre-installed as you can see we have that ryzen 9 5900 hx and this thing is an absolute beast i've been doing a little bit of testing with it 16 gigabytes of ddr4 running at 3 200 megahertz and the built-in radeon 8 graphics when it comes to these mini pcs powered by these mobile ryzen chips first thing i always like to do is just make sure that gpu can run at its maximum claw and we are at 2100 megahertz here in gpuz with the render test going and i've tested a couple games so far it will stay at 2100 megahertz so that's a big plus next thing i wanted to take a look at was the stock tdp so i have prime95 i'm just going to run a test here to stress it out and this is set at 50 watts from the factory you'll see it jump on up and this is definitely turning out to be the most powerful mini pc that i tested on this channel with a mobile ryzen apu if you wanted to pick something like this up and use it as your everyday desktop it's going to work out just fine email checking web browsing video editing photo editing this 5900 hx will definitely handle it we have that ax wi-fi built-in so everything loads up really quickly i am connected to my five gigahertz network at the house and another thing i always like to take a look at is webgl performance so we're going to start off here fps is in the top left hand corner over here we're at 60 500 fish 1000 5000 1000 15 20 25 we're still at 60 and at 30 000 fish that's when it dips down just a bit but uh it's definitely handling it really really well obviously video playback is going to be great on this whether you're streaming or doing it natively you could turn this into a little plex server we definitely have plenty of cores and threads to help out with that and overall this has been really snappy and i expected it to be given that we have those 8 cores and 16 threads running up to 4.6 gigahertz in this little pc i also ran some benchmarks and the first one on the list here is geekbench 5 single core 1485 multi 7573 looking great on the single and the multi so let's check out some gpu benchmarks with 3d mark first up night raid total score on this 15 192 fire strike gave us a 3490 and finally time spy with a 1 1338 so these scores aren't bad at all for a mobile chip with integrated graphics but we kind of need to see how this thing really handles gaming so first up here's kinchen impact 1080p medium settings we're running at 60. i did see it dipped down once there was a lot of particles on screen it went down to around 58 but overall it's holding pretty strong at 60 and this is playable next on the list forza horizon 4 1080p with a medium low mix we have a lot of low going on here but we got an average of 61 fps i was actually expecting to see a little more out of this but when it comes to the ram in this unit it's only running at 3 200 megahertz and having faster would definitely help out with this apu but faster sodim ram is really really expensive gta 5 actually did really well 1080p normal settings we got an average of 69 fps out of this one here's borderlands 3 1080p low settings we got an average of 64 fps but i did see it drop below 60 especially when some explosions were going on but overall i mean it's actually looking pretty decent if you drop this down to 900p i'm sure you could eliminate all of those drops under 60. here's where we had to start dropping the resolution down a little bit we have dirt 5 900 p low settings we got an average of 41 fps i've tested this on a lot of mobile apus and it's just a really hard game to run on integrated graphics here's doom eternal 900p low average of 40. now i do have the resolution scale set to off so we're at 100 resolution scale and dropping that down a little bit would help out a lot but running this at 720p low would net you around 63 average cyberpunk 2077 coming in at 720p low settings we got an average of 34fps and if you've ever tried to run this on any kind of integrated graphics you know it's a beast but uh we're over 30 here i was hoping we could get a little more out of it unfortunately that's just the way it is and finally we have control 720p low we only averaged 34 out of this one now if you wanted to lock it at half v-sync at 30 fps you should be good to go but now it's time to move over to my favorite part in these videos emulation first up wii u breath of the wild using simu we're at 900p vulcan back in async shaders it'll run in 30 all day i also tried this at 60 but we only got an average of around 48 fps and when taking this game up to 1080p i do get an average of 30 fps out of it but i did see it dropped down to around 28 every once in a while so i took it down to 900p and it actually runs pretty decently next up we have zinnia the xbox 360 emulator here's forza 2 and we can't quite hit 60 with this it really favors nvidia gpus but you know recently the 5000 series desktop apus were released and with some faster ram you can actually get this to run at full speed on those but with this mobile chip it's just really struggling and the final emulator i wanted to test here at least for this video was rpcs3 ps3 emulator we got skate three going vulcan back in 900p it's running at full speed and going into this i had a good feeling it would because this emulator really takes advantage of those extra cores and threads we have eight cores 16 threads and as you can see it's running it just fine whenever i test out these mini pcs i always like to take a look at power consumption and this is definitely going to be higher than some of the other ones given that we have that higher end 8 core cpu but at idle it only pulls 18 watts gaming we averaged 68 watts and the maximum that i could get this to pull from the wall while maxing out all eight cores 16 threads and the gpu was 89 watts from the wall and by the way i'm using a kilowatt meter this measures total system power consumption so yeah this thing is definitely a powerhouse for a mini pc i was hoping to see a little better gpu performance but you got to keep in mind that we're stuck at that clock of 2100 megahertz we really can't overclock it with the hx and when it comes down to it ram speed really makes a huge difference with these apus and we're kind of stuck at 3 200 megahertz unless you want to fork out the money for some really expensive fast or so dim ram but all in all this is the most powerful mini pc that i've tested on my channel that includes a mobile ryzen apu i've tested out more powerful mini pcs that i've personally built but those are using desktop variants so if you're looking for a high performance mini pc and the apps that you tend to use can actually take advantage of those 8 cores and 16 threads then i can highly recommend the menace forum hx90 now there is one more video that i want to do on this i'm going to add an external gpu over that m.2 slot so i'll be running my operating system and everything from a 2.5 inch drive but i got a really good feeling that if i pair this up with a gtx 1660 or something even higher in than that we're going to see amazing performance because on the cpu side of things we have plenty for anything we want to run it really comes down to that built-in radeon graphics that's kind of holding us back in gaming that video will be coming soon so definitely keep an eye on the channel but uh if you're interested in learning more about this i will leave a few links in the description and if there's anything else you want to see running on the menace forum hx90 just let me know in the comments below but that's going to wrap it up for this one and like always thanks for watching\n"