What just happened? A mini PC packing AMD’s new Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor has reached the hands of a reviewer nearly two months ahead of its release – and its performance is impressive, to say the least. Tech YouTuber ETA Prime put a prototype of the Souyo S9 AI through the wringer, finding that it could handle some of the most demanding gaming titles with ease even without a dGPU.
For the uninitiated, the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 “Strix Point” chip is based on the Zen 5 architecture and packs 12 cores. These are split into a configuration of four Zen 5 power cores plus eight Zen 5c efficiency cores.
The real star, however, is the Radeon 890M integrated GPU. We already had a taste of this little monster in simulated gaming handheld performance benchmarks earlier this month and it looks like it can perform just as impressively in a mini PC setting.
ETA Prime’s testing shows that AAA gaming at 1080p with smooth 60fps performance is on the menu with this unit. Cyberpunk 2077 averaged 74 fps, Starfield consistently stayed over 70 fps, Hogwarts Legacy got around 72 fps, and Mortal Kombat 1 averaged 60 fps. Of course, you won’t be maxing out visual settings on these, but the review prototype hardly had to run them at minimum spec either.
Particularly impressive was the mini-PC’s handling of the notoriously demanding Horizon Forbidden West. While last-gen APUs struggled to break 60 fps even at 720p on low settings, the Souyo S9 consistently topped 60 frames per second at 1080p low with AMD’s Frame Generation enabled.
Moving on to other benchmarks, the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 scored 9,469 in 3DMark’s Fire Strike test, 625 in Steal Nomad, and 4,199 in Time Spy – solid results pointing to a solid GPU performance uplift over the previous generation.
Circling back to the mini PC itself, you’ll find a pair of USB-A ports and a solitary USB-C port up front, though the latter wasn’t functional on Prime’s review unit. Around back of the compact box are two HDMI outputs, Ethernet, two more USB-A, and another USB-C port.
Storage is no joke either, with three M.2 NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD slots onboard, though one was inactive on the prototype. Memory is the soldered LPDDR5X variety in 16GB, 32GB, or 64GB capacities, so upgradeability isn’t an option here.
The Souyo S9 AI is anticipated to launch around mid-October but the pricing is still up in the air.
