Zotac Readies Magnus EA Mini PC Powered by Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo"

[btarunr]

Zotac is ready with the Magnus EA (2025) mini PC powered by AMD Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" line of processors. It was inevitable for "Strix Halo" to make its way into gaming-capable mini PCs, given its small PCB and cooling footprint for the kind of hardware chops on offer—up to 16 "Zen 5" CPU cores, and a powerful iGPU with up to 40 RDNA 3.5 compute units that makes it capable of 1440p AAA gaming; besides full Microsoft Copilot+ capability with a 50 TOPS-class NPU. The Magnus EA comes in a similar 140 mm-class 1U chassis as the 2025 Magnus One that's expected to be built on Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" processors, which is noticeably thinner than the 2025 Magnus EN, which combines a Core Ultra 200H "Arrow Lake-H" processor with GeForce RTX 50-series "Blackwell" mobile discrete GPUs. Zotac is expected to unveil the Magnus EA, the 2025 Magnus EN, and the 2025 Magnus One at Computex, later this month.



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[Chaitanya]

Interesting hopefully they have SKUs with full fat 128GB of RAM.

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

Interesting hopefully they have SKUs with full fat 128GB of RAM.

And hopefully they have a nice fat heatsink in there too so they can rull full ball to wall 120w without throttling. I'm REAL curious to see what an unleashed strix halo can do.

 

[Chaitanya]

And hopefully they have a nice fat heatsink in there too so they can rull full ball to wall 120w without throttling. I'm REAL curious to see what an unleashed strix halo can do.

Framework should be the one where we can have Strix halo without any constraints but Zotac is using form factor thats much more compact and easier to travel with.

 

[Mrgravia]

Framework should be the one where we can have Strix halo without any constraints but Zotac is using form factor thats much more compact and easier to travel with.

Pretty much, though the framework isn't that big to begin with.

 

[Mindweaver]

I can't wait to see how well AMD Ryzen AI Max performs on SteamOS.

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

Framework should be the one where we can have Strix halo without any constraints but Zotac is using form factor thats much more compact and easier to travel with.

True but the Zotacs made previously in said chassis incorporated not just high end mobile i7s but also high end mobile GPUs, which combined pushed well above strix halo's 120w max TDP. So hopefully the zotac will be able to max out the 395 without issue.

To me the Framework misses the point, it uses a SFF ITX case but cant take a dGPU upgrade card, so the space ends up wasted. It's nearly twice the capacity of the Zotac but ironically with less ports.

 

[Chaitanya]

True but the Zotacs made previously in said chassis incorporated not just high end mobile i7s but also high end mobile GPUs, which combined pushed well above strix halo's 120w max TDP. So hopefully the zotac will be able to max out the 395 without issue.

To me the Framework misses the point, it uses a SFF ITX case but cant take a dGPU upgrade card, so the space ends up wasted. It's nearly twice the capacity of the Zotac but ironically with less ports.

Missing expansion slot is a major downside for Framework as it would have enabled faster Networks and other interface cards, but luckily framework is selling motherboard stand alone so that can be easily fixed with any SFF miniITX board of users choice. Even then size disadvantage wont go away compared to Zotac's offering.