Minisforum has released a new version of its Venus mini PC with Ryzen 7 7735HS processor inside. This CPU still falls into the older Zen3+ architecture, despite the name. The PC has, among other things, a USB4 connection.

the Minisforum Venus UM733 Lite It is a mini computer of which a regular version was already released in China in January. Now the manufacturer is releasing the Lite version, although there are few differences compared to the “full” variant. The computer is powered by an AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS processor. This is AMD’s mobile community with eight cores and sixteen threads, but the CPU still has the older Zen3+ architecture and not the more modern Zen 4. Since AMD changed the designation of its Ryzen mobile processors last year, the first digit in the model number no longer identifies Zen architecture. The soc has a base clock speed of 3.2GHz and a turbo speed of 4.75GHz. The mini PC also has an integrated Radeon 680M GPU with twelve compute units.

The device also has up to 64GB of dual-channel DDR5 memory and up to 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD. In addition, there is a 2.5-inch SATA connection in the computer for connecting a hard drive. There are six USB ports on the device: four USB-A ports, two of which support USB 3.2 Gen 2 and other generic USB 2.0 ports, and in addition to a USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 port and a USB4 port, there are also two HDMI connections on the device that can provide a maximum video output of up to 4k at 60 frames per second. Up to four monitors can be connected to the device using the USB4 port, and there is also a 2.5Gb/s ethernet port on the PC.

The UM773 is only available in Europe through the German supplier and is available in bone form from €479. In the most expensive configurations, this price can rise to 949 euros.