Gigabyte's BRIX Mainstream Series AI Mini PC Now Available

[GFreeman]

GIGABYTE, a global leader in technology, today announced the availability of its flagship ultra-compact mini-PC, the New BRIX Mainstream series, accompanied by an exclusive product video release. This series is powered by the latest Intel Core Ultra processors (Series 2) and boasts an integrated GPU with a remarkable 20% performance increase over the previous generation. Furthermore, it unleashes exceptional AI performance, delivering up to 96 Tera Operations Per Second (TOPS), making it perfectly suited for demanding generative AI tasks and intensive multitasking scenarios.

⁠Designed to meet the growing needs of smart home solutions, commercial deployments, content creation, and edge computing, the BRIX Mainstream series packs this impressive performance into a remarkably compact 0.46-liter chassis with a sleek 3.5 cm profile. Despite its size, it offers top-tier computing power, flexible expansion options, and an eco-conscious, energy-efficient design - delivers performance that exceeds expectation.



⁠As GIGABYTE's most AI-driven mini-PC yet, the New BRIX Mainstream series offers configurations featuring the latest Intel Core Ultra 7 255H and Intel Core Ultra 5 225H processors. Equipped with integrated Intel Arc Graphics and the upgraded Xe LPG+ microarchitecture with up to 8 Xe cores, the combined power of its CPU, GPU, and NPU engines delivers AI computing performance of up to 96 TOPS. This marks up to a 2.5x increase in AI performance over the previous generation, providing significantly more advanced experience for high-performance computing, graphics rendering, and visual recognition. For memory and storage, the BRIX Mainstream supports up to 96 GB of DDR5-6400 MHz memory and dual M.2 NVMe SSDs, delivering outstanding speed and ample capacity. This top-tier performance is housed in an ultra-compact chassis of just 112 x 119 x 34 mm, achieving a perfect balance of power and minimalist design.

⁠Although compact in size, the BRIX Mainstream series offers impressive I/O expandability. It supports up to four 4K UHD video outputs, including two HDMI 2.1 ports and two USB Type-C ports with DisplayPort Alternate Mode, allowing for highly flexible multi-display setups. Expanding beyond display capabilities, the BRIX Mainstream delivers versatile connectivity for a wide range of devices, featuring three USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports to support high-speed data access and peripheral devices. In terms of networking, it integrates 2.5GbE LAN Ethernet, Wi-Fi 7, and Bluetooth 5.4, delivering exceptional bandwidth and low latency. From cloud collaboration and AI edge inference to real-time data transmission, the BRIX Mainstream seamlessly meets the needs of modern professionals.

⁠The power system is another standout feature of the BRIX Mainstream series, pioneering the adoption of USB Power Delivery (PD) for efficient power input. This design substantially enhances energy utilization and contributes to overall power savings, in line with modern demands for energy-efficient computing. In addition, the system supports VESA mounting, making it easy to integrate into a variety of space-constrained or customized setups. Moreover, with its low noise design, the BRIX Mainstream is ideal for long-term use in both commercial and home environments where quiet operation is essential.

⁠BRIX Mainstream Series Product pages：

• GB-BRU7-255H
• GB-BRU5-225H

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[Chrispy_]

JFC on a bike, "Intel® Core™ Ultra Desktop Processors (Series 2)"
What a mouthful. This is just Lunar Lake, right?

I've yet to see any real performance reviews of Lunar Lake yet but presumably it sucks less than Arrow Lake as the RAM is on-die? TSMC N3P means it's presumably pretty efficient but it also tops out at 37W so peak performance is unlikely to be anything to get very excited about. Battlemage IGP is going to be pretty heavily oppressed by sharing a 17W envelope with the CPU....

 

[Alan Smithee]

Why is it 3D printed

 

[Chrispy_]

Why is it 3D printed

Nah, it's not 3D printed, it's that classic "brushed aluminium" plastic that always looks classy cheap.
At least it's not piano-black gloss plastic that just looks like fingerprints if a human being has been within ten feet of it in the last week.

 

[bonehead123]

"Flagship" + "AI driven" are just more ways of saying "wallet draining" ..

 

[dgianstefani]

JFC on a bike, "Intel® Core™ Ultra Desktop Processors (Series 2)"
What a mouthful. This is just Lunar Lake, right?

Arrow Lake

 

[Chrispy_]

Arrow Lake

Maybe possibly perhaps.

I just looked it up and Intel Core Ultra Supreme Hyper (Series 2) is a dog's dinner of just about anything still in production. It's seeming just about everything apart from Meteor Lake.

I haven't worked out which part of Intel's spurious naming scheme relates to the generation yet. It's not the series, and it's not the first digit of the model number, eg Ultra 5 2xx. Maybe that's their plan - confusion and obfuscation to hide bad products and old SKU rebrands.

 

[evernessince]

JFC on a bike, "Intel® Core™ Ultra Desktop Processors (Series 2)"
What a mouthful. This is just Lunar Lake, right?

I've yet to see any real performance reviews of Lunar Lake yet but presumably it sucks less than Arrow Lake as the RAM is on-die? TSMC N3P means it's presumably pretty efficient but it also tops out at 37W so peak performance is unlikely to be anything to get very excited about. Battlemage IGP is going to be pretty heavily oppressed by sharing a 17W envelope with the CPU....

It'll give you similar CPU performance to the AMD Ryzen AI CPUs, which also have on die RAM, but with a worse GPU and a much much higher price tag. Both my Mini-pcs are AMD because all the Intel offerings of similar specs were $150+ more.

I guess Intel is hoping it can bilk saps who still think they are the best.

 

[Chrispy_]

I guess Intel is hoping it can bilk saps who still think they are the best.

That's got to be a vanishingly tiny demographic these days, right?

Intel CPU has been bad news in the press, bad for stonks/shares, and just not competitive for multiple generations now. Alder Lake was good, if you ignore the socket bending problem, and everything after that is either a self-destructive power-hungry nightmare or a performance regression with silly, obfuscated product naming. Oh, and they've been obliterated in the datacenter/server market too. Never mind the decimation of their NIC reputation with the catastrophic i225 and i226 controllers that are so broken no firmware or driver update can fix them. Intel has gone from a safe bet to "you've got to be joking?" in half a decade.

As much as I dislike Intel for their half-decade of mistakes, two prior decades of illegal behaviour, bribery, coercion, and abuse of market position - we need healthy competition because AMD are still a corporation and corporations have one single goal - to extract as much money from customers as legally possible, and as illegally as they think they can get away with. Even hundreds of millions of 'bad behaviour' lawsuits are seen as a cost of doing business at this level, and realistically the only real losers are us - the end users.

 

[evernessince]

That's got to be a vanishingly tiny demographic these days, right?

Intel CPU has been bad news in the press, bad for stonks/shares, and just not competitive for multiple generations now. Alder Lake was good, if you ignore the socket bending problem, and everything after that is either a self-destructive power-hungry nightmare or a performance regression with silly nameing. Oh, and they've been obliterated in the datacenter/server market too. Never mind the decimation of their NIC reputation with the catastrophic i225 and i226 controllers that are so broken no firmware or driver update can fix them. Intel has gone from a safe bet to "you've got to be joking?" in half a decade.

Honestly I have no idea. I assume they are selling at that price and not just sitting around but can't really say for sure.

 

[Wirko]

Maybe possibly perhaps.

I just looked it up and Intel Core Ultra Supreme Hyper (Series 2) is a dog's dinner of just about anything still in production. It's seeming just about everything apart from Meteor Lake.

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I haven't worked out which part of Intel's spurious naming scheme relates to the generation yet. It's not the series, and it's not the first digit of the model number, eg Ultra 5 2xx. Maybe that's their plan - confusion and obfuscation to hide bad products and old SKU rebrands.

The plan has a name, and the name is 10L4Y, or ten Lakes in four years.

 

[Chrispy_]

That sounds more like the "six seasons and a movie" meme than a marketing strategy.
Given Intel's current madness, I can totally believe you.

 

[A Computer Guy]

That's got to be a vanishingly tiny demographic these days, right?

Intel CPU has been bad news in the press, bad for stonks/shares, and just not competitive for multiple generations now. Alder Lake was good, if you ignore the socket bending problem, and everything after that is either a self-destructive power-hungry nightmare or a performance regression with silly, obfuscated product naming. Oh, and they've been obliterated in the datacenter/server market too. Never mind the decimation of their NIC reputation with the catastrophic i225 and i226 controllers that are so broken no firmware or driver update can fix them. Intel has gone from a safe bet to "you've got to be joking?" in half a decade.

As much as I dislike Intel for their half-decade of mistakes, two prior decades of illegal behaviour, bribery, coercion, and abuse of market position - we need healthy competition because AMD are still a corporation and corporations have one single goal - to extract as much money from customers as legally possible, and as illegally as they think they can get away with. Even hundreds of millions of 'bad behaviour' lawsuits are seen as a cost of doing business at this level, and realistically the only real losers are us - the end users.

...Threadripper with Nvidia 5090 has entered the chat and started to use AI to analyze your written woes...

 

[dgianstefani]

Maybe possibly perhaps.

I just looked it up and Intel Core Ultra Supreme Hyper (Series 2) is a dog's dinner of just about anything still in production. It's seeming just about everything apart from Meteor Lake.

View attachment 398484
I haven't worked out which part of Intel's spurious naming scheme relates to the generation yet. It's not the series, and it's not the first digit of the model number, eg Ultra 5 2xx. Maybe that's their plan - confusion and obfuscation to hide bad products and old SKU rebrands.

It's not maybe, the 225H and 255H are Arrow Lake.