Minisforum releases Venus UM773 mini PC with USB4 and Ryzen 7 SoC on Zen3+

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

The Minisforum Venus UM733 Lite is a mini PC of which a normal version was released in China in January. The manufacturer is now releasing the Lite version, although there are few differences compared to the ‘full’ version. The PC runs on an AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS processor. That is AMD’s mobile SoC that has 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 naming of mobile Ryzen processors last year, the first number in the model number no longer reflects the Zen architecture. The SoC has a base clock speed of 3.2GHz and a turbo clock speed of 4.75GHz. The mini PC also has an integrated Radeon 680M GPU with twelve compute units.

The device also has dual-channel DDR5 memory of up to 64GB and a PCIe 4.0 SSD of up to 1TB. In addition, there is a 2.5″ SATA connection in the PC to connect an HDD. There are six USB ports on the device: four USB-A ports, two of which support USB 3.2 Gen 2 and the the other two are generic USB 2.0 ports, as well as a USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 port and a USB4 port. There are also two HDMI connections on the device that can deliver a maximum video output of 4k at 60fps. Together The USB4 port allows you to connect up to four screens to the device. There is also a 2.5Gbit/s Ethernet port on the PC.

The UM773 is only available in Europe through the German supplier and can be purchased as a barebone from 479 euros. In the most expensive configurations, the price can rise to 949 euros.