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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powerarmour - Thursday, November 3, 2016 - link
No, wrong again my dear letch-worthy friend, it's not useless, just overpriced for what it is, and it's size above common sense.I'd guess neither of which you're entirely comfortable with.
aj654987 - Wednesday, November 2, 2016 - link
Still overpriced compared to the alienware alpha r2 which was released a few months ago.Duto - Sunday, October 30, 2016 - link
Beautiful!, Another awesome Gigabyte product.powerarmour - Tuesday, November 1, 2016 - link
Cool story bro, do you work for them too?Ranger1065 - Monday, October 31, 2016 - link
Nobody really cares about reviews of mini pcs as evidenced by the comments section, but Anandtech just keep churning them out. Good job guys another step towards oblivion.How long before you suffer the same fate as Daily tech I wonder?
powerarmour - Monday, October 31, 2016 - link
It's already done for, there is literally nothing here worth reading any more, and nothing like how it used to be.I don't know why I even bother to comment really, often it's in the vain hope that someone is reading that feels that same way, but hey, no-one seems to care.
milkod2001 - Tuesday, November 1, 2016 - link
From time to time they post some many paged in depth reviews worth to read(even if they are a few months behind to other tech sites:) but yeah, this site got super average since Anand and others have left :(.Findecanor - Friday, November 4, 2016 - link
You don't speak for me.zodiacfml - Monday, October 31, 2016 - link
Price fails it again. Beaten by an ASUS $995 gaming laptop.Sailor23M - Tuesday, November 15, 2016 - link
Skull Canyon is the way to go for me, light gaming with awesome general everyday performance. Anybody see those on sale? Cheapest I can get is $575.