so I have with me here another ryzen 6000 series it's the ryzen 7 6800 H 45 watt part
8 cores 16 threads and this model here is from b-link it's called their sur6 Pro Windows 11
Pro is the operating system it does come with pre-installed 32 gigabytes of ddr5 RAM running
at 4.8 gigahertz 512 gigabyte SSD that is PC8 4.0 Wi-Fi six it's not Wi-Fi 6E unfortunately and 2.5
gigabit Lan this model even though it's really small as you can see if it's in the palm of my
hand packs a lot of power and 680m Graphics which has the 12 executional units and it clocks up to
2.2 gigahertz which what does that translate into this jargon well it means the gaming performance
for integrated graphics on this one is a big step up from the previous generation Vega graphics for
example it even has this model room for a 2.5 inch Drive which I'll cover and show you the internals
and how to upgrade the sur6 pro from b-link Inside the Box you will find our power cable eu1 for me
of course a short HDMI cable if you're going to be using the Visa mount bracket then that's the
one you'd use a standard size HDMI cable the Visa mounting bracket bracket screws and then
some screws for a sata 3 2.5 inch drive we have our user manual in various different languages
they do include this a topped dust cover which is removable in red if you wanted to use that
one other than the standard black or gray one and then our hunt key power supply now this is
a brand I have seen a lot of before they are well known for their power supplies and it is 120 watts
the output maximum of this power supply the Mini PC is a very small size indeed it's like those
Intel Nooks very similar to those and this top here has fabric on it so this is where the dust
will be filtered out because the intake fans just below this now it's actually a blue color here
sorry I said it was black or gray no it's a dark blue and you remove that you can swap it out with
the red one if you wanted to do so so here at the front you'll see we do have a set of ports here
we've got the stickers there 6000 series because this has the ryzen 7 and it is the 6800 H and we
do have the Radeon 680m graphics which is quite powerful with this it's 12 cores and it clocks at
2.2 gigahertz and I'll show you gameplay later on so two USB 3 ports here not 3.2 gen 2s but
just USB 3. this is our usb4 Port so that's full spec power delivery it supports it up to 100 watts
and we do have of course video out that's 8K up to 30. you can run 4K 120 hertz from that 3.5
millimeter headphone jack back with Mike support our power button clear CMOS there if you happen
to mess up any of the settings and it won't boot then just use a paper clip and push that in to
reset it there and at the back this is where the hot air is expelled you can see that right there
now we've got 2.5 gigabit Lan here really good USB 2 Port another USB 3 Port which is a little
disappointing I wish they were 3.2 or actually all of them should be USB 4S that would be even better
and we've got two HDMI ports that are HDMI 2.0 a so 4K 60 they are not HDMI 2.1 unfortunately here
and then DC into power it all then the left and right side of it we have this a metal mesh there
which is an intake vent along the back we have two rubber feet four screws if you remove those and
then pull on that you can lift off the bottom here gain access to the internals which I will show you
shortly and it's very kind of them to actually put this on the back quick setting description so
delete to get into the BIOS F7 for our boot order a lot of Brands don't even bother with that and I
just tend to kind of mash the keys to find the correct one to get into the bias or boot order
so here there are two ports sorry mounting holes there for our mounting bracket Visa mounting this
if you wanted to mount it on the back of a monitor let's take a look at those internals now so this
is new they've got this SSD cooler a little fan here too as well to keep this area a bit cooler
and your 2.5 inch ssds or spindle hard drives use slot and right here that's I'll say to 3 connector
of course removing that cooler was a little bit of extra work there's quite a few screws you need to
remove and the SATA connect to sata 3 here is just to one side there's ribbon cable so be careful
you don't damage that and this plugs in the fan that little fan at the top onto the motherboard
directly there once you've got that off you can see our two Ram slots there so we do have ddr5
from crucial there are two sticks of them so two sticks of eight 16 gigabytes sorry there's giving
me 32 in total and of course that is ddr5 4800 megahertz here we have our Kingston pcie e 4.0
SSD just lift that out and you'll see underneath we then have our Wi-Fi card which is the Intel ax
200 this has a Bluetooth 5.2 with it so you can upgrade that you can upgrade the RAM you can swap
out that SSD and add a 2.5 inch drive not bad at all and here is our bios battery if you're
wondering what that yellow thing is starting out with our bias so I thought I would show you this
that it's quite locked down to us unfortunately so we have advanced menu here where you can okay auto
power on this is good so you can set that to on if you're going to run it as a server or on a switch
whatever you would want that to be on uh there are really no other settings in here that we can tweak
because CPU configuration you'd want to leave all of that enabled memory you wouldn't want to touch
that that's the maximum speed for the ddr5 RAM and NVM e configuration well there's nothing we
can change there so hopefully under chipset right can we change options here not really Graphics
configuration doesn't show anything Northbridge there's nothing in there we can change so it's
just basically the boot order and that power on autopower on option in so that's really
disappointing with the BIOS that it's locked down to us now the speed of Windows pretty obvious this
is a 4.7 gigahertz maximum turbo 8 core 16 thread Apu from AMD is super fast so everything I do in
Windows just loads out really quick multitasking is great there's no slow down with the menu you
get the idea there's no need for me to go over General Windows 11 Pro performance here so yes
it does ship with Windows 11 Pros you can see there and I do need to run some updates of course
that's normal you get all your windows updates coming through as soon as you connect up but I
have it disabled at the moment so it's not going to affect the performance of anything I've been
running so the full amount of ram isn't available to us because there is a bit dedicated to this
680m Graphics that is normal it scales up and down there too as well so the 32 gigabytes ddr5
Angel Channel 4800 megahertz so it is very quick looking in the device manager here you'll see
for our network connection so we have that Wi-Fi six adapter I showed you now you can upgrade this
if you want Wi-Fi 6E you can swap it out you could put in the ax 201 and that will give you Wi-Fi 6E
if you need it a little bit faster if you've got one of those faster routers and here you'll see
that the chipset here listed of course 16 times because of the 16 thread so it's super potent as
you'll see from these benchmarks that I have run now these benchmarks you can run on your
own Hardware at the moment so you can see just how much faster it's going to be this is geekbench 5
and very good single core score now that single core score won't beat the new 12th gen Intel's
that we have and of course now the 13th gen is coming out with mobile chips as well eventually
we'll see them in many PCs and still not bad at all no one's really going to be complaining
about that but I just did want to point out that yes the Intel can get around 1800 points there
multi-core score very good but it's no ryzen 9 6 900hx it's a little slower than that but that's
to be expected because it's a you know this is a part that's inferior to that particular model
there and I of course have run cinebench R23 here as I do in all my Mini PC benchmarks that I cover
with the reviews and you can see again very good performance here so that does run for t 18 minutes
single chord test and then another 10 minutes multi-core test that I did run there too The
Thermals I'll just show you those now because it is interesting to point out that yes it's
getting hot but it hits 90 degrees and it doesn't trigger thermal throttling you have a look here
and then it doesn't say that yes for thermal trotting and that's good we don't want to see
that so even though it's getting hot it's not thermal throttling itself so that is good there
now it pulls about 45 Watts maximum I have seen from the wall it's about just over almost 70 Watts
that it does pull I do have an external hard drive connected up to as well by the way with
the USB 4 type c Port there and it's running at full maximum speeds too as well so it's all good
everything checks out what about the fan noise so I will do a quick sample of the fan noise now
it's at maximum load this is with cinebench R23 just stressing it out all of those eight cores
while this does support pcie 4.0 and apparently it's a Kingston Drive that is pcie 4.0 the speed
certainly don't look like it apart from the read is maybe slightly over the cap that we used to
have with pcie3 so you could improve upon these speeds it's not a fast drive at all if you wanted
the 7000 megawatts per second reads and write sequentials then get yourself something like a
Samsung 980 Pro and then you'll get those blazing fast speeds but it's still quick and it's not I
think most people still be happy with these kind of speeds here it's not a big issue it's just that
I did and do wish that it actually shipped with a pcie 4.0 drive that was a lot faster than this
and let's jump now over into media playback and I will use Chrome for this because I find that
performance of Chrome for streaming is actually the worst so jump into YouTube in fact YouTube
4K 60 demo see how it performs now this is the one I always do test out so I've got it actually
it's muted already and I want to make sure that that is 4K 60. turn that on to full screen and
enable our stats here now it's dropped okay eight frames already that was probably when
it just resized that's kind of normal for that to happen and now look at that solid performance no
drop frames effect I found the ax 200 card on this to be excellent I'm getting a through Port of just
over a gigabit I haven't had any problems at all with it and that's helping so the 680m is decoding
this just fine what about then some other files so hevc this is a 10-bit file okay that loads in just
fine and I can clearly see that that is running yes that 30 frames per second not dropping any
frames just close that off and I'll try now 4K 60. at the start here that's running in slow motion
so that's normal the way it looks just skip ahead okay and I can see that again that is running
perfectly at 4K 60 which is what I'm recording this clip in so great streaming performance
media files anything you throw at this Mini PC it will handle it with ease this ryzen 7 6800 h
now 4K video editing this is with Adobe Premiere Pro it is the latest version latest update and the
timeline is quick now I did want to point out that this well the graphics integrated Graphics is a
lot better now with the 680m and it does have the higher clock rate 2.2 gigahertz 12 cores it still
won't beat a dedicated GPU something like even an RTX 3050 TI or 3060 would be a little bit better
with the playback performance but it is a huge step up from the Vega Graphics we had previously
with the 5000 series you can see as I move ahead with the timeline it isn't dropping any frames
and I've only got quarter playback resolution which is what I recommend for 4K files which I
am editing right now so it's pretty good for basic edits and that is a old review of mine
that's about 10 minutes long it's my little demo file here but I'll find out what the export times
are now for one minute of footage at the YouTube preset here we go with my timer there's always
going to be about a second maybe almost two seconds difference but this should be quick
all right it is steaming ahead we're ripping through this encoding at a really quick rate
and the ram speed will definitely be helping along with of course that new 680m so it looks
like it's going to finish out I'll skip ahead now and I would say maybe even under 40 seconds
so here we go just finished about you could say 34 seconds that's really good an impressive speed
for one minute of 4K footage encoded at the YouTube 4K preset here with Adobe Premiere Pro
and onto the fun part here so the base test that I always do GTA 5 yes it is an old game but it's a
good game and look at the frame rate so around 100 frames per second this is a good about just off
the top of my head around 25 30 faster than the previous gym which I would get around 70 frames
per second with the top Vega Graphics so it's looking very good even inside the car here having
to render the interior of the car and it's able to pull 90 frames per second now take a look at
the GPU the throttling that's taking place because it's not holding the top clocks nowhere near it
it's not 2.2 gigahertz now I saw this on the last Mini PC that I reviewed with the ryzen 6000 series
it was the 6900 HX same thing was happening it wasn't hitting the top turbos or holding them the
whole time so I'm seeing the highest it's getting up to wow even dipping down to 533 megahertz I'm
not too sure why it is doing this you can see it's not even going over 2000 so if it was clocked at
the highest all the time and I've double checked this I've checked my power profile all of that
stuff there's no reason for this to happen but the performance is still very good still getting
80 frames per second at 1080p GTA 5 with normal settings and The Pedestrian density traffic view
distance and everything is set to the middle so great gaming performance for integrated graphics
cyberpunk should I say cyber glitch look at that it's still glitching out it just hasn't loaded in
the textures for these cars oh this game is such a joke how buggy it still is after like about 20 000
patches or whatever it's had what a joke anyway 1080p look at this performance 30 frames per
second on integrated graphics with the low setting preset of course but it's looking pretty good
and now okay those cars seem to have corrected themselves the models aren't bleaching out anymore
although that car just randomly appeared out of nowhere what I'll do now is set it to 720p which
will improve the performance and we'll see how the 680m graphics performs then okay now this is
looking a lot better I just saw it before it's 60 frames per second for integrated Graphics that's
impressive but we're still getting look at turbo that's up to about 1900 maximum but it's still
not pulling and hitting the 2200 that turbo it's it's throttling so the graphics clearly
throttling and I saw it throttling on the last 6000 Series so I don't know whether it's just
something to do with the way the 6000 series is or perhaps it's to do with thermals power
limits probably the power limits I'd say because of the 45 watt power limit that is definitely what
I feel is restricting this performance a little so it could do even better than the what are we
looking at about 50 frames per second right now but look at all these NPCs cars and everything
this is certainly better than what you would get on a PlayStation 4 Pro so last gen console for
such a demanding game like this it is impressive that this is integrated Graphics all up this is an
excellent little mini PC great performance good thermals USB 4 it can run two displays out well
three in total isn't that type c Port you can add another 2.5 inch Drive you've got 32 gigabytes of
fast ddr5 Ram the PCI e-speeds pcie 4.0 out of that SSD I like PCA 3.0 so it's not the fastest
you could upgrade that if you weren't happy with the speeds we get Wi-Fi six not Wi-Fi six e and
I really wish those HDMI ports were HDMI 2.0 but we do get the gigabit Lan on here sorry 2.5
bit gigabit Lan so very fast so there's a lot of good things going with this Mini PC the only
real disappointing area for me is that the 680m graphics is throttling a lot due to power limit
constrictions constraints there so it could clock up a lot higher to 2.2 gigahertz but
it seems to always run and bounce around 1500 1600 sometimes 1800 megahertz which is quite
a bit lower so it could perform even better even though as you saw it can play cyberpunk 2077 and
it can play GTA 5 and a lot of other games at very good frame rates we're still not actually
seeing the potential of this Apu because it's limited to 45 Watts which we cannot change and
honestly the cooling wouldn't be able to handle it it already hits 90 degrees C but
no thermal throttling so thank you so much for watching my review here of the b-link sir 6 Pro