This year, the domestic market has seen an influx of new mini consoles, but high-performance options with dedicated graphics cards remain scarce. Recently, the Atom G7 Platinum high-performance mini console was launched. It features the AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX processor and RX 7600M XT graphics card on the AA platform. Notably, it is the world’s first high-performance mini console to receive certification from the AMD Super Power Excellence Platform. What kind of performance can be expected from such a compact device? Let’s find out.
Design
The Atom G7 Platinum measures 61mm×153mm×268mm, placing it at the base height of 288mm to make it one of the smallest mini consoles to have a dedicated graphics card. In terms of design, it features sharp lines, an all-black appearance, and a spider web-style air intake, enhancing the powerful look, especially with a red accent on the left side.
On the right side, this Atom G7 Platinum has a magnetic acrylic panel with a frosted surface. In case this computer turns on, it will display a collaborated pattern by a popular cartoonist with the ability to display two RGB colors. Then, the pattern is printed onto this with high detail and precision.
This Atom G7 Platinum motherboard can accommodate a lot of interfaces, most of which can be placed at the front and back. In the front panel, it has light indicators for power and fans, a performance mode switch button, one USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-C, one USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-A, a 3.5mm audio combo jack, and two digital microphones.
At the back, it is provided with a DP2.0 port, an HDMI2.1 port, another USB3.2 Gen2 Type-C supporting DP video output, three USB3.2 Gen2 Type-A, an RJ45 2.5G Ethernet port, audio output and microphone jacks. The power port is kept at the bottom, and the magnetic base helps in managing cables to keep the workspace tidy.
At the top of the console is the power switch, which is joined by the subtle clear CMOS button.
The Atom G7 Platinum arrives fitted with the typical requirement connections and batten—the standard 300W DC power supply and an HDMI cable.
Performance
It comes with an AMD Ryzen 9-7945HX processor and the RX 7600M XT discrete graphics card. It’s the first high-performance mini PC that’s been certified under AMD’s Platform Excellence program because of its special design. Bringing along a Cold Wave Ultra cooling system, this device enables a turbo performance output of up to 205W. Moreover, this is the first mini PC that supports PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD, with utterly overwhelming performance compared to other mini PCs without independent graphics cards.
The Ryzen 9 7945HX processor on Atom G7 Platinum uses TSMC’s 5nm FinFET process and Zen4 core architecture, featuring 16 cores and 32 threads, a maximum clock speed of 5.4GHz, a 64MB L3 cache, productive power consumption, and a darling among gamers.
It uses an RX 7600M XT GPU based on AMD’s RDNA3 architecture, packing 32 CUs, 64 ROPs, and 2048 stream processors. The core frequency does not exceed 2300MHz, and video memory is 8GB GDDR6 with a 128-bit memory bus and 120W TDP, with performance close to Nvidia RTX 4060.
Although compact in size, the cooling system of the Atom G7 Platinum holds up to the temperature of all these powerful components. It sported broad cooling fins and a fan when disassembled, part of its Cold Wave Ultra cooling system featuring an 8-pipe heat sink and liquid metal thermal conductivity.
The Atom G7 Platinum comes out of the box with a 512GB Kingston OM8PGP4512Q SSD, supporting PCIe 4.0—upgradable to PCIe 5.0 for improved performance. According to CrystalDiskMark tests, this provided write speeds in excess of 4700MB/s and read at 3300MB/s for the PCIe 4.0 SSD. With an upgrade to a Lexar NM1090 1TB PCIe 5.0 SSD, write speeds in excess of 11700MB/s and a read of 9400MB/s were achieved, which greatly improved in-game loading and reading times.
Memory
On the memory front, it features two Crucial 16GB DDR5 5600MT/s SO-DIMM sticks. This is where things get a little not-so-good—the maximum support is 5200MT/s. AIDA64 tests for read and write speeds were around 62100MB/s, with a copy score of over 51300MB/s and latencies of 87.4ns for memory and 10.4ns for L3 cache—indicating the standard performance for 5200MT/s memory.
The network card itself seems to natively support Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4, but only reportedly works at full capacity on Windows 11. It can run with Windows 10, but there could be some network deterioration.
What else
Performance-wise, the Atom G7 Platinum gets pretty good performance. During the course of a 15-minute FPU stress test, the CPU dialed back the power consumption to sustain around 85W at 73°C while maintaining the core frequency at 3.6GHz. In an identical test, the GPU maintained a power consumption above 120W, with the temperature held at 71°C and the frequency at 2300MHz. In the combined stress test running both CPU and GPU, this system was able to pull a total power draw of 219W, proving the efficiency of this Cold Wave Ultra cooling system.
Theoretical performance scores are equally impressive. In CineBench R23, the CPU scored 1915 points single-core and 31668 points multi-core. In the 3DMark CPU profile test, it scored 1059 points for single-threaded and 13194 for multi-threaded performance. RX 7600M XT was able to achieve a score of 5027 points in the Time Spy Extreme test and 14214 in Fire Strike Extreme; it scored 5408 points in the ray-tracing performance test in Port Royal.
The PC Mark 10 modern office benchmark gave it over 10,000 points for all sorts of daily office tasks, hitting 8860 points overall, indicating above enough performance for general office work.
In creative tasks, the Atom G7 Platinum fared quite well in Blender Benchmark 3.0, hitting over 560 with the monster scene and above 280 with the junkshop and classroom ones. On V-Ray, it delivered a result of 23607 points for CPU rendering and 545 points for GPU CUDA rendering, good enough to render medium to large models and scenes.
Game Testing
Now, much being a mini gaming console, the Atom G7 Platinum will have to take some special attention in terms of gaming performance. We have run five games across the console.
CS2: At 2K resolution and default high settings, the average FPS was 419, while the 1% low came in at 120 FPS, with an average latency of 14ms. At maximum settings, the average frame rate was 128 FPS, while the 1% low was 88 FPS, with the average latency climbing to 20ms and continuing to produce an extremely smooth game experience.
Tomb Raider: Shadow The built-in benchmark ran at an average of 101 FPS at the high setting preset at 2K with a 1% low of 84 FPS. In very high settings, it ran at an average of 85 FPS and a 1% low of 67 FPS. That means the Atom G7 Platinum can handle the game at 4K just fine.
Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey: In this, it turned in an average 93 FPS on 2K high settings and an easily gameable 68 FPS average at ultra settings in the internal benchmark.
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Yakuza 8: At 2K and with the highest quality settings available in-game, the average frames per second reached 76, while the 1% low reached 63 FPS. Upon turning on FSR and a quality priority, the average frame rate rose to 167 FPS, while the 1% low reached 111 FPS for much higher performance.
The game ran well at 2K ultra-high quality while setting FSR 2.1 to auto and ray tracing to off. The average framerate the game could achieve was playable—the frame rate at 60 FPS. If you set Super Ray Tracing to Quality, that further drops to 31 FPS, which may not be fluid at all. I would recommend using 1080p with medium quality at most and ranging as low as possible in ray tracing in order to have a playable 60 FPS.
In simple words, the gaming performance delivered by Atom G7 Platinum represents some of the smoothest and most responsive gameplay genres available in a variety of demanding titles at 2K resolution. You need to tweak the resolution and quality settings to achieve optimal performance with ray tracing.
Conclusion
As the first certified mini host of AMD Advantage, Atom G7 Platinum reaches an impressive performance. Equipped with an AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX processor and an RX 7600M XT graphics card, the total power is 205W for running most AAA games at 2K resolution. Furthermore, it receives additional enhancement from a PCIe 5.0 M.2 to improve performance, though replacing the SSDs could present issues. In future improvements, the replacement of an SSD could be more user-friendly. Ideally, this should be operable directly from the light board side.
The barebone Atom G7 Platinum is 6999 yuan ($963), and the 32GB + 1TB configuration is 8299 yuan ($1142). If somebody is looking at a compact mini host, yet high in performance, then the Atom G7 Platinum has a lot to prove.
