Minisforum V3 AMD Tablet Review! The Best 3 in 1 We've Ever Gotten Our Hands On

hey what's going on everybody it's ETA Prime pack here again today we're going to be taking a look at the world's first ryen power tablet now this is coming to us from Min Forum it's known as the V3 and if you're familiar with this you know that I've created one video already it was kind of a first look video and in that one I did state that this is one of the best Windows tablets that I've ever tested I'm not a huge fan of Windows tablets in the first place but this is really changed my mind about them and yeah this is the best Windows tablet I've ever had my hands on it's not perfect and there's a couple things I'd like to see Chang down the road but overall this thing is putting down some really great performance and it comes down to a few different things obviously it's a ryzen powered tablet but with this we get the new AMD ryzen 78840 U 8 Zen 4 course 16 threads and R dna3 Graphics so you know we've got a really good performing setup here and you can actually play AAA games on this thing now one thing that's always kind of turned me off about other tablets that I've tested is the screen but I think minus forum is above and beyond with this one because what we get here is a 14in 2560 x600 IPS display with some really Vivid colors a refresh rate of up to 165 HZ and it supports vrr variable refresh rate or free sync given that we're using an AMD chip here it's a 16 by10 display native landscape and they've added some configurations here to actually allow us to use any of the resolutions from 16 by10 up to 2560 x600 and even 16x 9 aspect ratio resolutions which will help out with apps that just don't scale properly to 16 by10 screens of course like a lot of other manufacturers who create these windows tablets there are extra accessories like a detachable keyboard we've got a magnetically detachable rear stand and even an active pen we will be testing this out in the video so keep an eye out for my super awesome art skills but I do want to move into the specs just give you a quick refresher one of the main claim to fames here is this is an AMD powered unit so we've got the AMD ryzen 78840 8 cores 16 threads it's all based on Zen 4 we also get the Radeon 78m igpu based on rdna 3 12 compute units and this will clock up to 2700 mahz ryzen AI with these newer chips and it's a bit more powerful than ryzen 7000 so the ryzen AI npu can do up to 16 tops of AI performance but in total using the igpu CPU and mpu up to 38 tops this unit has 32 GB of LP ddr5 Ram running at 6,400 MHz and I'm not sure if they're going to be offering a 64 model or even a 16 this is the one that they sent over for review it supports an m.2 2280 SSD up to 2 terb a 14in 165 HZ free sync glare-free IPS display we've got a resolution of 2560 x600 it's 100% P3 and up to 500 nits of brightness built-in quad speaker setup so we've got dual speakers on on each side it's got a 50.8 2W battery with 65 W fast charging and this is running Windows 11 Pro in this video I'm going to be going over a lot of stuff from battery life performance benchmarks we're going to test out that active pen but the first thing I wanted to talk about were some changes I'd like to see down the road taking a look at the back cover slst originally in my first look video I wasn't aware that the bottom of this also had built-in magnets so I was kind of Folding It Out From The Bottom as the stand and as you can see this will block the vents basically all I had to do was fold the top down so that's how this one's going to work but it would still be really nice if we had a built-in stand on the back of this tablet something similar to the foldout stand on the Microsoft Surface tablets would be really cool now once everything's attached it definitely looks really nice all the air is drawn in from the rear but since I've got that cover on it it's going to block it it'll push it up out of the top they're using their new cooling system four heat pipes two fans and of course we've got that detachable keyboard with a really nice trackpad I actually like the feel of these buttons we'll take a closer look in a second but the first thing I wanted to jump into here was the BIOS I've had a few people asking about this it is using minus form's new visual bios but it doesn't support touchscreen so you will need a keyboard connected you could use a USB keyboard wired or Wireless but getting in here really easy Once you got that keyboard connected just press delete while it's booting up we'll go ahead and navigate with the arrow keys and we've basically got most of the stuff we need here unlocked checking out the Advanced section uh PSS and NX support or NX mode can be enabled or disabled but going all the way down to the bottom here to AMD CBS is where we can actually do a little bit of performance tweaking core performance boost you can totally disable it from the BIOS we can also dedicate some vram I've gone in and set up to 6 gigs since I've got a 32 GB model that's more than enough for this igpu but keep in mind it will automatically allocate it as it's needed it's not totally necessary from SMU common options we've got our system configuration so out of the box this will run it up to 28 WTS with the cooling system 28 watts is really great it set to Auto and we do have some software here from Windows that'll allow us to adjust the TDP but yeah really nice to see that we've got a lot of options here in the Bios next thing I wanted to give you a look at was the detachable keyboard really nice trackpad with multi- gesture support the keys on the board itself actually feel pretty nice they've got a little bit of throw to them and uh yeah you can navigate the tablet no problem at all with this keyboard and it also has the new Microsoft co-pilot key easy access to co-pilot you've got that AI assistant Bill 10 with Windows 11 and you know if you're not into this I completely understand but I did want to generate an image at least I think that's what this is really good for so we're going to go with Godzilla as a kitten and there you have it we've got four AI generated images of Godzilla as a cat and I think this is exactly why co-pilot exists so I just went ahead and plugged this into a capture device so we could get a better look at everything and I mean it's a very Snappy system we've got that 8840 you browsing the web at lower wattages is perfectly fine you're not going to run into any issues you can run 4K videos on this just fine I think 1440p would be a nice sweet spot given the screen resolution but uh one thing we've got here from minus forum is minus Forum space this is going to allow us to adjust everything on this tablet give us a little rundown on everything that's going on RAM usage CPU temp dis usage device manager we can go through check for driver updates and everything like that but the best part about this is from System Manager select mode we've got three different modes that we can use and you could use a thirdparty app or even get into the BIOS and up this if you want to but they've got this really tuned for this tablet and each one of these does offer great performance depending on what you're doing with the tablet power save obviously is going to be our lowest mode 15 wat TDP it's also going to take the refresh rate from 165 down to 60 and turn the brightness down on the built-in screen to 40% but we've got that 15 wat TDP not bad at all this is what I've been using for browsing the web watching 4K videos and even playing IND games Power Balance will take that up to a 22 wat TDP while plugged in 18 on battery 60 HZ refresh and finally Premium Power 28 WT keeping that at 165 HZ and each one of these does change the fan profile but even all out at 28 Watts I haven't seen this thing go over 81° C in extreme gaming test which is really awesome for this thing and they are using their in-house design cooling system for this so we've got four copper tubes and a dual fan setup we saw the vents on the back it's going to pull all the air in there push it right up out the top and if you're looking to get the best performance out of the V3 obviously you're going to want to go up to 28 Watts but it's pretty cool that that Power Balance on battery goes to 18 while plugged in so we've kind of got a dock mode there goes up to 22 the next thing I wanted to show off was active pin support and I'll tell you this isn't going to make you a better artist uh I can't draw worth anything got the minus Forum active pen USB type-c charging we've got those two buttons on it and I'm using Adobe Fresco so just taking a look here we can go with the wide line just kind of right on the side there put a little bit of pressure on it or if you want to get that really thin line just take it really easy and I don't want to make anybody jealous because I'm such a good artist but I did want to show off some of my drawing skills here got a either a teddy bear SL Pig bunny thing yeah I think we'll go with a teddy bear SL Pig bunny thing uh slh human little bit of ears and we'll do a little sun over here my fault I kept hitting the menu up up top but yeah active pin support working really well on the V3 and you know if you're looking to become an artist like me then this is kind of a must-have product the next thing I wanted to take a look at were some benchmarks that I ran on the V3 when it comes to geek bench 6 single core 20467 multi 11,027 now it's time to check out some GPU benchmarks with 3D Mark and what I've noticed here with these ryzen 8000 series apus as opposed to the 7,000 so the 88 40u versus the 7940 U night raid and fire strike scores are coming in a bit lower at the same kind of tdps but we're actually seeing a nice jump when it comes to time spy because with this at 28 Watts 3,18 this is a great score for an igpu especially given that we're only at 28 Watts but now it's time to take a look at some PC gaming on this tablet so first up we've got Hades I'm at 1200p and that's really all this settings we can change with this game here but it is running at 165 HZ at a 15 wat TDP of course you can run this game at around 10 watts 60 FPS but I really wanted to see if we could hit 165 FPS and yeah it's totally possible with a lot of the 2D or 2.5d indie games on the market right now so we can really take advantage of this display the next thing I wanted to test was an older game just to see if we could take that resolution up to 2560 x600 and with something like Dirt 3 which I completely understand is definitely an outdated game I still have fun playing it but that's just me we're at 2560 by 1600 High settings and we're getting an average of around 74 FPS and keep in mind we're only at a 15w TDP right now we can run this at 1200p high settings 120 FPS at the same kind of wattage moving over to fortnite and I was actually really impressed by the performance here I personally don't play fortnite if I was to get into a real match I'd get head shot immediately so I just went into one of the open maps on the front page I don't even know what this is 900p it's actually 1440 by 900 medium settings with none of the upscaling or super resolution options enabled I completely disabled all of that and we're seeing an average of around 74 FPS on this tablet at 18 Watts next up we've got hell divers 2 and with this I think it was user error but I'm at 10 P so you see the black bars on the top and bottom I should have went to 1200p but we're at low settings FSR set to Performance 28 watts and we're seeing an average of around 78 FPS which is really great for a game like this and yeah 28 watts is going to kill our battery quite quickly but I really wanted to run it like this to see the CPU temps and with this game here at 28 Watts we only hit a maximum of 65° Celsius I've been going back to this since the show came out and I can't wait for the uh new update to Fallout 4 but uh this is basically OG Fallout 4 for PC 1080p medium settings 28 W TDP seeing some good performance and I suspected we would the game is what 8 10 years old now so yeah we can definitely run this at 1080P and the final game I wanted to test here was cyberpunk 2077 you can take the TDP up on this run it at 28 Watts 1080P or 1200p low settings and see some really good frame rates but I wanted to take it down a bit just to see if we could do 18 watts and it's not bad we're actually seeing an average of around 71 FPS 800p low settings at an 18 wat TDP so far really impressed with the performance the V3 is putting out for PC gaming but of course one of the big questions here is going to be battery life on this unit we've got a 50.8 2W hour battery and we've got three different performance profiles that we can use for this first test we're in power save mode so it's a 60 HZ display 40% brightness on the screen 15 watt TDP first test here some YouTube video play Bag I've got the video at 1080p Hardware info is on screen and total battery draw is anywhere between 7.4 Watts up to 8.6 Watts kind of fluctuates in between there so I let this run for a little while just to get the averages on this video playback and I basically did the same with PC gaming because I think that's going to be a big draw for a lot of people out there I know there's handhelds and laptops on the market but there are people who do want a tablet to game on and this thing can definitely do it cyberpunk 2077 15 wat TDP you can see our total battery draw on screen is anywhere between 27.4 up to 28.9 I've got Hardware info in the back which will give me the average by the end of this running these tests for about an hour each video playback gameplay 15 watt 18 watt 28 watt with all of the tests that I've done we had a 60 HZ refresh rate 40% screen brightness Wi-Fi Bluetooth on video playback and web browsing are something that people are going to be doing a lot on this and all of that can be done in the 15 watt mode 1080p video playback from YouTube we're looking around 6 hours and 25 minutes a runtime out of this thing web browsing does pull a bit more I averaged around 12.7 Watts from the battery looking at around 4 hours of runtime and of course when it comes to gaming I did want to test in each mode so at 15 watts pulling around 28.4 Watts from the battery that's an hour and 45 minutes not bad and there's a lot of stuff we can run on this at 15 watt I've always considered 18 Watts on these apus a real nice sweet spot we can see around 1 hour and 35 minutes of run time and at 28 Watts you're going to average around an hour of gameplay out of this thing kind of full boat at that performance setting and another thing to keep in mind is we've got 65 W fast charging with this we can go from 0 to 100% and a little under 1.5 hours actually 1 hour 43 minutes is what I got out of this thing with a 65 wat PD charger that comes along with it personally I'm really loving the new minus Forum V3 it's definitely not going to be for everybody but I'm really glad that we have that big beautiful screen especially with vrr having that really high refresh rate is great for video playback of course we can run some indie games at 165 HZ on this which was pretty impressive in the cooling system they opted to use here with those four heat pipes and dual fans is actually really quite even at 28 Watts I was pretty surprised now I've been gaming at around 18 Watts across the board but through all of my testing from 15 18 up to 28 I had Hardware info running in the back and the maximum temperature that the CPU hit was 79° C fan noise is minimal at 15 and even 18 Watts but taking it up to 28 does get a bit louder it's not annoying in my opinion doesn't have a whne or anything to it actually sounds like a normal fan and it's actually much quieter than a lot of the 7840 owed handhelds on the market right now but overall I think this is a great tablet it is the best windows-based tablet that I've ever tested over a year but one thing to keep in mind is a lot of the other tablets on the market use Intel so we don't have that powerful rdna 3i GPU like we do with this ryzen 78840 one thing I'd love to see in a future revision of this tablet is an integrated stand have it built to the back of the tablet so it folds out like those Surface tablets but other than that I mean I think that Min for has done a really good job given that this is their first windows-based tablet to Market and all in all it's the world's first ryzen 8000 series powered Windows 11 tablet I've got at least one more video coming up with the minus Forum V3 I definitely want to test out an egpu here because we have two USB 4 ports they run at a 40 gig protocol so adding an egpu is pretty easy and we could definitely up the gaming performance on this so if you're interested in seeing a video like that make sure you hit that like button and think about subscribing to the channel so you know when I post the next one but if you're interested in learning a little more or maybe picking up the minus Forum V3 I'll leave some links to their official website down below if you've got any questions or if there's anything else you want to see tested on this thing just let me know in the comments but that's going to wrap it up for this video and like always thanks for watching

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Length: 17min 31sec (1051 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 15 2024