Beelink’s GTR 9 Pro Channels Mac Studio Design with AMD Muscle
With the GTR 9 Pro, the Chinese Mini PC specialist has launched a new compact compactor, which is not only a little similar to the Apple Mac Studio on the outside. Of course, there is an X86 CPU under the hood and no Apple processor.
Beelink ‘clons’ the Mac Studio
The Beelink GTR 9 Pro was officially announced for the first time in July, but only now Beelink has started sales as part of a pre -order phase in China. The “mini-PC, which is strongly inspired by the Mac Studio, is also favorable in his home country, the device there costs at least 12,999 Yuan, which corresponds to the equivalent of around 1700 euros. It is still unclear when Beelink makes its PC clone of the Apple Mac Studio internationally available, but the manufacturer’s devices usually start after the China launch sooner or later in various other countries. The price appears quite high for a mini-PC at first glance, it says at Liliputing but lies on the level that is common for such a powerful system.
The Beelink GTR9 Pro has an AMD Ryzen Ai Max+ 395, which is an APU with 16 CPU cores, 32 threads and a 40-core AMD Radeon 8060m graphics unit. In addition, a neural processing unit (NPU) with up to 50 tops AI performance is on board. In addition, there are also a total of 128 gigabytes LPDDDR5X-8000-RAM, which offer 256 GB/s bandwidth. Up to 96 GB can be assigned for use by the integrated Radeon GPU if necessary.
Unfortunately, the memory cannot be expanded or modified due to the use of laptop chips, but there are two M.2-2280 slots for using PCIe 4.0 X4 SSDS. On top of that, a MediaTek WLAN card with the support for Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4 is integrated. The system also has two fans and a vapor chamber cooling unit, which means that a TDP of up to 140 watts is possible for the CPU for the CPU. The GTR 9 Pro has a built -in power supply with 230 watts of power, so it can be connected directly to the socket with a device cable.
There is also space for two stereo speakers in the good nine centimeter high aluminum housing with 18×18 centimeters. Four microphones and the power button with built-in fingerprint reader are positioned on the front. There is also an SD card reader and a USB-C port as well as an audio connection. Various other connections can be found on the back of the Beelink GTR 9 Pro, including two USB 4.0 compatible USB-C ports.
