Minisforum brings Venus UM773 mini PC with USB4 and Ryzen 7-soc on Zen3+

Minisforum has released a new version of its Venus mini PC with a Ryzen 7 7735HS processor inside. 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 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 PC runs on an AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS processor. That’s AMD’s mobile soc which 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 Ryzen mobile processors last year, the first digit in the model number no longer specifies 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 other two generic USB 2.0 ports, 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 deliver a maximum video output of 4k at 60fps. up to four displays can be connected to the device with the USB4 port, and there is also a 2.5Gbit/s Ethernet port on the PC.

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