GIGABYTE BRIX Gaming UHD GB-BNi7HG4-950 mini-PC Review
by Ganesh T S on October 28, 2016 7:30 AM ESTGaming Notebooks Compared
One of the most common comments posted in response to mini-PC reviews is that the value proposition of an equivalent notebook is much higher than that of the PC. While there are plenty of factors that might make this comparison invalid, we thought it would be interesting to see how the GIGABYTE GB-BNi7HG4-950 fares against premium gaming notebooks (as well as the Zotac ZBOX MAGNUS EN980 that we evaluated a few months back). Towards this, we borrowed a few benchmarks from our notebook reviews and processed them on the BRIX. First, we will look at some artificial benchmarks before moving on to the games themselves.
3DMark Revisited
GFXBench
Dota 2
Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor
The takeaway from these results is that the performance of the desktop-class 'GTX 950' in the GB-BNi7GH4-950 can exactly be categorized as an 'overclocked GTX 965M'. The real desktop GTX 980 in the ZBOX MAGNUS EN980 obviously comes out on top in almost all of the above workloads. On the mobile side, configurations with SLI or really powerful CPUs win out in some cases. In any case, consumers buying into this platform can expect the gaming performance to be a bit better compared to notebooks equipped with a GTX 965M.
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TheinsanegamerN - Tuesday, November 1, 2016 - link
well, size wise, the brix wins hands down. That isnt even up for debate.Samus - Wednesday, November 2, 2016 - link
I can't not look at the thing and just think Gigabyte was clearly inspired by the Silverstone FT03-mini with this thing.They made a "mini" FT03-mini.
fanofanand - Friday, October 28, 2016 - link
$1160 with single channel RAM. Dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb.ganeshts - Friday, October 28, 2016 - link
That was the review configuration supplied. It is not limited by design, so the end-user can always add an additional SODIMM stick for around $50 or so.TheinsanegamerN - Tuesday, November 1, 2016 - link
at that price, dual channel should be included by default. My gaming laptop cost less then this thing.Lolimaster - Friday, October 28, 2016 - link
They know that once Raven Ridge ZEN APU arrives, any small pc with discrete gpu is done.hojnikb - Saturday, October 29, 2016 - link
not really. raven will be at best at performance levels of a rx460, so plenty of room therewintermute000 - Saturday, October 29, 2016 - link
yeah but enough to make a GTX950 irrelevant IF that is the caseThe_Assimilator - Saturday, October 29, 2016 - link
GTX 950 is already irrelevant thanks to GTX 1050... which beats RX 460... which makes Raven Ridge obsolete before it's ever launched. Seems like a common theme for AMD.meorah - Friday, October 28, 2016 - link
gtx 1050 ti review anytime soon?