finally the Next Generation you could save many PCs is here thanks to AMD with their new 6000
mobile Series so this model is the morphine or the more fine m600 it is powered by the ryzen
9 6 900hx and it's one of many many PCs I will be reviewing covering with this new chipset so
what it does have is some big changes we've got ddr5 support now a higher turbo on the integrated
Graphics which has 2.4 gigahertz and it is the 680m it's got pcie 4.4 support can take two ssds
with pcie 4.0 or even a SATA 2.5 inch Drive can fit within this wi-fi 6E ddr5 Ram so my
model here's got 32 gigabytes and 512 gigabytes of storage so we'll see what this m600 is all about
and the performance improvements we can expect from the new 6900 HX compared to the 5900 HX the
last gen model included in the box you'll find a power supply now that says almost 120 watts for
that powerful ryzen 9 to 6900 HX power supply cable we have a bracket here so yes it can be
Visa mounted placed on the back of a monitor for example we've got a SATA cable so that's the Sata
cable there you can add a 2.5 inch drive this is good to see there is a stand included HDMI
cable some screws and two mounting screws there for the Visa Mount and you'll find a little bit
of paperwork here so just some basic quick start guide here that goes over the ports and everything
as I mentioned in the intro there that we've got now of course the next generation of the ryzen
chips here the mobile chips and this is one of the most powerful ones so we get the big boost
in mostly the integrated Graphics so we've got that 680m now which is almost up to double the
performance of what we had before with say the Vega Graphics clock now 2.4 gigahertz ddr5 support
pcie 4.0 support with the ssds and we've got here two gigabit Lan ports 2.5 gigabit ports so that's
great to see there htmo 2.1 out so yes you can run 4K 120 hertz I've done that with my LG CX Monitor
and my Philips lg1 and it's working just fine DisplayPort 1.4 and it's also types you put on
the front front that can output display two up to 8K 30 so we've got the three display out options
so USB 1.3 here and then three USB two specs so a little bit slow but that'll be good for display
lagging in things like a mouse 3.5 millimeter headphone jack there at the back and at the front
here that is our usb4 Port so this is DisplayPort out it can act as uh Thunderbolt 3 too as well so
that's going to support that you could run an external GPU through this and then another two
USB 3.2s our power button and this is the exit vent sorry the intake vent on this side exit
vent is on the other so that is where all the hot air is going to be blowing out of the Mini PC once
it's under full load and I'll report on the fan noise and The Thermals of course in this review
the top of this Mini PC has this plastic on it so they will have the wireless antennas uh they'll be
underneath here so the plastic is going to Aid the reception of course of that and there's just this
little Protection cover over the top of it just get rid of that and then they have the AMD brand
the logo there on the top and morphine or more fine I don't know how they want us to pronounce
that and along the bottom here you'll see that's our intake there for the fan and we do have four
rubber feet but I'm going to take a look at the internals now now removing the underside of it
we can gain access then to one of the pcie 4.0 SSD slot so 22 by 80 is the size of it and something
like the Samsung 980 Pro would be perfect in there too so there are two screws on the back once you
remove those you can then pry open this top cover remove that but be very careful of the antennas
so you can see the antennas are located here on that lid where we do have that plastic top there
is metal here that is where the 2.5 inch Drive will go you've got the sata 3 connector right
there then the power connector we have our two Ram slots here and they are ddr5 specs so so they
are 4.8 gigahertz the speed of these and I've got 32 gigabytes installed you could upgrade to 64 or
maybe even higher if you wanted to do so and we've got our SSD here so this one I believe is only a
pcie three spec SSD according to the speeds I'm seeing from it which I'll show you in the review
later on and we've got a replaceable card here so that's a mediatek card it's Wi-Fi 6E you could
swap that out for something else if you wanted to do so so it's easy enough to swap out upgrade
the RAM change and swap the wireless card and add an additional two ssds if you wanted to do so so
that's great to see now I do have some really good news when it comes to the BIOS if you're
someone that likes to tweak your mini PCS it's completely unlocked to us so this is excellent
if you go into the advanced tab you can see we've got everything all the settings are here here you
have AMD CBS so under mbio common options if you go to gfx configuration which is the
680m you can then go along here and change the configuration to game optimize now if you do
this it will be dedicating the maximum amount of ram according to what Ram you have installed so
I've got 32 gigabytes of ddr5 RAM and I believe with this configuration it will dedicate then
four to the graphics so if you intend to game a lot this is probably something you do want to do
but I will leave it here just on auto of course it will share the ram it's shareable Ram anyway
because it's part of the system Ram this is an APU setup so it will scale that up automatically but
it has been proven dedicating some of that Ram will improve the lower average FPS and there's
all sorts of other settings in there I won't go into those one of them here actually is an
interesting one the system configuration so this is where we can change the power limit
so by default it's Auto which I believe will be the 45 Watts TDP so this is our power limit but
you could set this to 54. now 54 will give us a boost in performance a little the problem is it
will increase The Thermals and it will probably increase the fan noise so I will just leave that
as Auto default that one there and maybe later I will actually change that and if I do of course
have thermal Headroom so plenty of options to change in there but just be really careful
those two I just showed you are the only ones I recommend you do touch and of course you've got
boot order everything else is in here which is good so let's go over into Windows now
the version of Windows that it does run is Windows 11 Pro and you will find that our free available
Ram we don't get the full 32 gigabytes because of course a little is dedicated to the 680m graphics
now if you look at the device manager you will see that this Apu the ryzen 9 6900 HX is listed here
16 times well it's got eight cores and 16 threads maximum turbo is 4.9 gigahertz and it is a step
up yes of course over the previous generation but on the CPU side depends on what benchmarks you're
running it's not a huge amount as you'll see but we do have of course the Dual gigabit two points
sorry 2.5 gigabit Lan ports on there which is great you don't often see this option and then the
mediatek Wi-Fi 6E so that is the fastest at the moment of course Wi-Fi 7 is coming but this is the
fastest really that most people will be able to run at the time of this video here so that's good
to see and the SSD it is not a PC cie four-spec one but the slot does support it because now it's
all running pcie 4 ddr5 they are some of those changes and the USB 4 too that we do get with this
revision the newer architecture and everything so the SSD I've benchmarked that and you can see
the speeds disappointing especially those write speeds I mean if this was a pcie4 SSD spec one 4.0
then you'll be looking at 7 000 sequential reads and writes if it's a very good model like say a
Samsung you've got a 980 Pro or something in there so of course you can swap that out you can upgrade
put in a faster drive if these kind of speeds were an issue to you you wanted a little bit
quicker you've got that option to add another one as I showed you so another pcie 4.0 Drive expand
upon your storage and even a 2.5 inch drive so what about the benchmarks this is where things
get a bit interesting because CPU side of things with cinebench I am seeing similar scores here
from the previous gen from the 5900 HX so you can see single core score okay that's up approximately
maybe 50 to 80 points a little bit there and about 800 points more only or so that I'm seeing uh with
our multi-core score here so that's looping that Benchmark there for 10 minutes and it didn't
Throttle No thermal throttling but I'll just show you the thermals now you can see it got up to 90.
okay 90.1 degrees Celsius ambient temperatures here at the moment are about 20. so it's good I
mean no throttling that is fine but we do see a boost in the performance is this right here so
geekbench 5 okay finally now we're seeing quite a bit of a change here so this multi-core score that
is up around about 11 over the previous generation so the last Mini PC I reviewed with the 5900 HX
which was this here the HX 90g you can see got almost 9 000 points and now we're up just over
the 10 000 Point Market for multiple score for a Mini PC a small PC like this with a mobile
chip that's a fantastic score really good single core performance you can see it's gone up well
about 90 points or so it hasn't gone up a lot uh so it's a minor increase there it is the GPU
side of things where we do get the performance benefits of course as for video playback well
I'm gonna go into YouTube here and I'll just bring up my test file so this is streaming 4K
I'll enable those uh stats but actually I'll just do that after I go full screen now you see here
that it shouldn't really drop any frames at all so everything I'll throw an added video wise so
hevc 10 bit 140 megabits per second not a problem okay it'll decode it handle it just fine the 680m
integrated Graphics not an issue and vp9 right now in Chrome with no problems as long as you've
got a good stable internet connection good fiber connection then it will be able to do this just
fine so really good video playback performance as we're seeing with the previous generation testing
out file transfer speed so this is using the USB 4 type c port to a external mvme drive it's getting
around about here you can see real white real world sequential transfers of about 800 a little
bit more than that and that's probably actually being slowed down a little bit by the SSD within
this I think I can get a little bit higher than this so excellent transfer speeds for large files
and if you wanted to do some video editing I have right here Adobe Premiere Pro it's the
latest version 2023 the latest updates and everything timeline I have set to a quarter
playback resolution now these original files are 100 megabit they are Sony 4K 30 files
and whoa okay that was a bit interesting bit of a glitch there I don't know why
that happened with the preview that could be down to adobe's software right here but
the timeline is looking very good very fast when I skip ahead and I'm not noticing too
many drop frames or anything like that now the performance you could probably even stick that
uh to half resolution there is looking good so I'm just going to hit play on this again and
that seems to be fine I'm not detecting really any drop frames even at this half playback resolution
so this is only a simple 4K edit it's only about 10 minutes but I wanted to test out those export
times too so decoding encoding should I say and we'll see how it handles that at the YouTube
default preset here in Adobe one minute of footage only and it is about to finish up
so once that bar disappears there it goes so you could say approximately 31 seconds that's
quick for one minute of footage so excellent so for basic 4K editing I think the speaker Mini
PC especially with the 32 gigabytes of ddr5 RAM here is going to be great for that and finally
onto the graphics I've been really excited to take a look at the performance kind of gains
that we are going to get and normally out here with GTA 5 I've got it set 1080p normal settings
and everything else in the middle when it comes to The Pedestrian density and view distance so
I normally see around about 60 to 70 frames per second right here with the Vega graphics
uh with the previous generation and we're looking at a frame rate that is almost double almost I
mean sometimes it is double because I was getting about 60. uh that is really good you can see out
here over 100 frames per second now so that's a huge step up in performance it's looking at
least like well you're not quite double but I would have to say at least around 70 performance
boost here and the car it has dropped down a little bit because of course it has to render
all the uh interior of this car so that's kind of normal driving around here it's dropped down
a bit but not bad at all for GTA 5 running at 1080p so if you are someone that wanted to use
this of course for a little bit of light gaming then this is I would say the model to go for the
models to go for wait for this newer 6000 series uh if you can't get it yet in another type of Mini
PC or in a laptop or something it's well worth the wait over the older graphics and you can see
looking at the clock there it is throttling down a little bit so that GPU is not holding
sadly not holding their the 2400 megahertz the whole time so it is there it is it's at 2400
then it drops and throttles oh throttles all the way down to 1500 megahertz and the power limit
seems to be the culprit here at its 54 Watts at the moment thermals don't seem to be too bad so
I don't know really why it is throttling like that I think it's definitely the power limit
what about cyberpunk this is 2077 and we're looking at almost again double the frame rate
here for 1080p this is very good I'm impressed I mean look at how many NPCs I do have this is on
the low preset setting 1080p look at all those cars and yes there's screen tearing going on
because I don't have vsync on uh a lot of tearing out but that's uh just to do with the settings
but all this being rendered and still being able to get or look at that 40 frames per
second 1080p on integrated Graphics was such a demanding game wow that is impressive I am
surprised by this performance so that is a huge step up we're talking not quite double
the performance but something close oh what we have over say the vague 8 Graphics that
you would have on the previous generation of this particular chip the of course
ryzen 9 the 5900 hex and you've been walking around here oh that's so good all that means
rendered I'm just gonna quickly test out 720p now if you don't mind taking that head on the
resolution 720p is the way to go on the low preset because look at this almost 60 frames per second
despite having the latest chipset it does run Linux so I have booted up here a live USB pin
Drive image of Linux Manjaro now I go with Linux Manjaro and the open source drivers
because it just seems to be the most compatible with all the tick I review so Wi-Fi seems to
work bluetooth's working everything seems to be just fine here which is good for those of you
that want to run Linux on a Mini PC like this as I pointed out before The Thermals are very
good with this particular Mini PC so it doesn't go over 90 degrees Celsius and from the wall it
will pull around about 78 77 Watts I'm seeing maximum idle is about 12 Watts but I do have an
external hard drive plugged in keyboard and a mouse so that's making it a little bit higher
there and the fan is very good do you hear it sometimes Under full load but it's not
that loud and here is a sample of it playing cyberpunk 2077 so pretty much Under full load
so if you are in the market now I feel for a Mini PC and you intend to game a little bit a little
bit of light gaming at say 1080P and it will be playing some more demanding titles definitely
don't look at the previous generation so don't look at even the iris Graphics ones don't look
at them the Intel is the 12th Jan or 11th gen or the 5000 series you really want to get the
6000 series now from what I'm seeing with the graphics performance increase there from going
from say 70 frames per second at 1080P and GTA 5 to now 120 130 is a big step up now we've got
plenty of options when it comes to Ports so you've got USB four three displays out you
can add an additional two ssds in this which is fantastic good fan noise overall nice compact
small size you can see it fits almost in the palm of my hand right here there's only really
two things for me and that is the included SSD from more fine morphine uh is a little slow it's
not pcie4 even though it supports it the other is there's some thermal throttling not thermal
throttling sorry Graphics throttling that is happening so instead of holding the 2.4 gigahertz
the entirety of the time you're gaming like we see with say the Vega 8 Graphics previous gen holding
2.1 gigahertz it's throttling right down and I saw with GTA 5 a little bit of throttling but
with cyberpunk it dropped down as low as 1.5 gigahertz for a few seconds and then back up
to say 2 100 megahertz so there is clearly some throttling going on I believe it's connected to
the power limit so I'll probably test out the 54 watt setting in the Bios and maybe
Uma game optimized to see if it will let us get past that throttling issue and I'll probably
have a follow-up video on that or I'll let you know and pin a comment in this video if it does
correct the issue so thanks a lot for watching my review here on the morphine or more fine m600