Smallest RYZEN SBC - DFI GHF51 Review

hey guys what's going on is down here from Nova spirit second welcome back to the channel and today I got a super exciting product to show you guys which is the dfi ghf 51 and if that doesn't really mean anything just put it this way it's a 1.8 inch rise in SOC so yeah [Music] before we begin I do want to thank dfi for sending me over this board and I've heard about this for months already and I've been anticipating this board to arrive and it's finally here now everything we talked about will be linked down in the description below so Before we jump into all the benchmarks and all the specs and everything I do want to do an unboxing but you could see how big this box is I'm pretty impressed myself how big it is for such a small board so let's begin first we have owner's manual and everything okay some sort of owner's manual battery guide some sort of manual about the board itself we have some standoffs okay rather large heatsink oh yeah this guy is also fameless' so that's pretty cool got the heatsink copper heatsink on the bottom and another thermal pad I guess that's for the RAM okay we got a battery for the real-time clock the actual board itself and this thing is small I'm telling you this guy is so they compared the size to this as a Raspberry Pi size and I'll put this right next to Raspberry Pi in a second and we'll see then we have the power cords the reset button power button digital pins it's a connector for the digital input an output and also the power plug seems to be like six millimeter barrel or five minutes no it's like five and a half millimeter barrel and then a main board utility disc so this says demo on there I don't know what's in there yet maybe an operating system I don't know you also get this power adapter which I believe it's 12 volts but it's pretty big obviously bigger than the board itself and then we have the power cord and that's about it that's everything in the box it's a pretty big box for all this stuff so this is everything get and let me show you guys what I mean by the size of this and a Raspberry Pi so there's the size of a Raspberry Pi and there's a size of the GHP 51 and you can see it actually might even be a little bit smaller as far as like the line up over here goes and then the width wise it's like a hair smaller over here as well so that's pretty cool to be smaller and crazy a man of power coming from this little guy so let's kind of go through this a little first we have the rising CPU right over here and this model is the ar160 6g which is 2 point 6 gigahertz and 3.5 turbo boost with two cores and four threads then you have the RAM over here now this model I believe is the 4 gigabyte RAM and they have multiple models they have a four gig 8 gig different CPU combinations as well as 16 gigabyte emmc 32 or 64 so this one is 32 gigabyte emmc and then yeah that's right over here the emmc and down on the bottom that's bit about it for the bottom of the board now over here you have some GPIO pins it's not GPIO it's actually for the power reset switch and all that other stuff that's where you connect it over here turning it over to the other side on top you have a mini PCIe slot Ethernet USB C micro HDMI micro HDMI what is this thing over here this is a UART the battery plug more RAM this is ddr4 4 gigs again so you have it on both sides then you have your power plug over here and then your digital input and output GPIO over here and that's it basically for the board so let's try to put this thing together now I have not powered this on yet but I will be powering it on and getting all the benchmarks and everything and comparing it to the other boards that I have like the Voodoo bolt and lots of panda and stuff like that now keep in mind this are 1000 series is a slight it's like a hair before the v-series we went down the series which to do bolt is Karen so the Voodoo bolt has the four core in eight threads this one has you know two cores and four threads so this is not as powerful as that board but it still has they go three GPU in here so you're actually going to be able to play maybe some older games with this if you wanted to now being that the size it is and you can see how small it is look at the Raspberry Pi obviously this is a very powerful CPU and it's meant to to fit in places where your normal PC cannot fit maybe inside a car somewhere or some robotic thing that you're trying to build so that's really what this is for but obviously with the rise in CPU in there I'm gonna turn this into a little computer myself and imagine building a tiny little case you know like NZXT type case and fitting this guy in there that would look pretty cool anyway let's put this together and see how it looks now according to the instructions who I'm gonna peel this off oh look at that no that's pretty cool I'm gonna peel that they have a little thing here to peel too so let me try to like grab this off the angle because I don't want to keep it up I've got it look at that alright got that in taking these standoffs out okay so we got four of these and supposedly according to the instructions you just slap this on like here like so and kind of like is we done like should I remove this sticker up from on top of the RAM yeah probably should and move it somewhere else because honestly it's on top of RAM where the heatsink would go I mean the thermal pad would go so I just moved that over slap this on top make sure it's lined up and put these in this way so basically I got to turn this around yeah so it's got a little hair of a gap so you do need to really like compress it and get it in there but I got to turn it around hold it into position it's not too awkward to hold it like this but it's fine slide the screws in at least got two screws in you know and then on the opposite side I could take one of these uh start putting it in I'm just doing it by hand for now there you go I got one in so now I'm not too not too nervous about doing the other one that's the size of this rising computer it's pretty small it's got a pretty beefy heatsink that goes on top of it I wonder how well it's gonna dissipate the heat I don't want any thermal throttling so we'll see how that goes okay now that we put the heatsink on I also put the real time battery on on the bottom it does look pretty slick still even having this big heatsink on there it's actually not that big but to have a rising power thing on the size of your hand snow pretty cool first they come with this wire which is the barrel plug and then two leads at the end yellow and black pop pretty sure it's for positive and negative then you have this set of wires which goes into digital i/o now there's two connectors at the end one is a big one and one is a small one I believe the bigger one to be the digital i/o pins and the small one may be to provide power or maybe for a fan or something that's what it looks like it connects to now next up you have these series of wires and power buttons and LEDs and that's basically for power reset activity LED and the power LED and then they come with this other cord that's actually for the SN bus so it's right next to the front side panel like where you would connect these buttons to but this is for the SM bus alright so I am gonna put all this together and check it out and then I'm gonna power it on see how much wattage it takes where the heat dissipates and all that stuff so I'll be checking you guys out in a second alright here we have it first boot so as you can see it's actually called the project name is gene hf5 one four gigs of ram ddr4 with 2400 megahertz which is a little bit slow for a rise in CPU it's got the rise in embedded 16r 1606 G with radium Vega Radeon they got three speeds at 2600 megahertz what I was gonna do here AMD chipset any see lost control always on graphic configurations integrated umh s be okay primary integrated graphic card driver's trusted computing a CPI so I could do the wake stuff CPU configurations ok PC health status it's actually it's running right now and there's like barely any heat as you can see so that's pretty cool I'm gonna do a heat test in a second watchdog USB configurations legacy HMS storage okay network stack CMS so if I want to use legacy BIOS I can go in here and just pop in legacy BIOS and a secure boot password and then the boot options it's up Windows boot manager wait do I have Windows on here already save and reset ok let's check this out I didn't even know if it has Windows on here which it's possible I just got this unit if it has windows on there than I can just use that to test everything I need now I'm also going to show some wattages while this is trying to boot and we'll see how that runs now as of right now it's eight point six watts just trying to boot and I'm in the BIOS screen so let's see come on Windows let's see if those windows and there is no windows ok so just that just had a little Windows boot manager hmmm see I don't know why that's there but I'm gonna be installing Windows and I'll get back to you guys in a second so we aren't done with the benchmarks and I gotta say I'm super impressed with this guy but I'll circle back to that in a second but let's first talk about this guy now this is a rising embedded chipset there are 1000 series on top of a 1.8 inch credit card size computer so it can't get smaller than that with bhisma horsepower honestly so DF I actually has 4 models for this guy and I am using the 1606 G version and there's a 1505 G version and then a 1305 G version and then 1102 G version so the bottom two are still coming soon according to the website but the top two are available and I'll leave a link down in description below to where you can get yours now the version I'm using is the 1606 G and it's got 2.6 gigahertz turbo boost at 3.3 with the Vega 3 GPU now this one cost 378 while the 1505 G version at 2.4 gigahertz and turbo booster 3.3 is at 333 dollars now yeah I could feel it in the comments already that you guys gonna comment how you could get a cheaper computer for half the price and even faster well please put into consideration this is not that type of computer this is a 1.8 inch SBC where its purpose is to fit in places where your normal computer can mainly geared for robotics or IOT stuff like that so unless you're comparing this to another s PC that is much smaller or the same size form factor please put that into consideration before you're commenting now moving on the 1505 G is 333 dollars and honestly I think that's a really good budget and it you're only losing 200 megahertz from the top-tier now moving on you do have the AMD GPU which does support h.265 decoding and encoding and also vp9 decoding and 2 micro HDMI outputs they both could do 4k but only at 24 Hertz so I wouldn't highly recommend doing anything on that it does have three different options to this guy which I haven't seen yet but it does have a 16 gigabyte EMM Seeds 32 gigabyte emmc which is the one I'm using and there's 64 gigabyte emmc as far as ram goes the speed is fixed to 2400 megahertz and it does come with either 4 or 8 gigabyte don't version I'm using is 4 gigabyte this board does have some sort of expansion which is in the form of M PCIe and you also have a USB C which is USB 3.1 gen2 so you could probably do something with that as well as far as the ethernet goes it is on a Gigabit Ethernet and connectivity wise it does have 8 digital input/output pins and 1 SM bus and all that powered through a 12 volt barrel so that's pretty impressive now as far as the wattage goes and sleep sleep state its 1.2 watts and then at idle state its hovers around 7 or 8 watts and then at full tilt you know full CPU benchmarking stuff 22 watts on this see no.6 now on their website they actually have specs for the 15:05 which is about 20 watts for Full Tilt normal operating temperatures on this guy which I was able to check is about 55 degrees Celsius and my ambient temperature is about 80 degrees Fahrenheit so let's jump into the benchmark why I was saying it was impressive is because this heatsink actually works so I got to eat my words I basically did not draw thermal throttle throughout the whole time I mean it was very close I was hanging around between 77 and 82 it should start thermal throttling around 85 but it didn't get to that point so I was really impressed on how it did not thermal throttle on a guy like this without a fan and my ambient temperature was around 80 degrees Fahrenheit I'm telling you that's where I'm impressed about as far as this course goes on Cinebench it did 643 it did do a little bit more than half the speed of the guru bolt which is on the v-chip scent while we are on the car but it did surpass all the other chips like the Odyssey or the latte Panda as far as our compute scores now I also ran a heavenly benchmark and the heavenly benchmark score was a hundred eighty-four which I found a little bit underwhelming because the Watty panda actually has that beat we're using a UHD 620 so I really thought that they got three had a little bit more oomph than that but I guess I was wrong it's probably because the RAM speed was a little bit slower than it really should be as far as to get more performance out of that GPU as far as the wattage goes I was saying earlier it's 22.6 watts which takes more than all the other guys other than the Hoodoo bolts which obviously that's gonna take the cake because that is a higher generation with the more cores and you know faster CPU so yeah it is higher than the latte Panda and all the other ones but I am impressed about also is the onboard emmc it's actually pretty quick the read speed is 336 which is fast and all the guys that we have tested but the write speed 155 it's pretty up there just a little bit slower than the seed Odyssey x86 so that is it that is as much as I tested with this guy I am gonna throw some operating systems in there and I am gonna push it to another limit I do want to get some games in there just to see how far I could go with the games being into Vega 3 core and possibly some overclocking maybe I don't know anyway let me know down in the comments below on what you want to see with this guy and I'll see if I could do it and if you guys are new to this channel consider subscribing also hitting that Bell notification icon so you know when the next vid is going to be out and as I say my nerd cave pack till it hurts

Channel: Novaspirit Tech

Views: 176,094

Keywords: novaspirit, tech, ryzen embedded, r1000, r1606g, ghf51, ryzen, dbc, soc, ryzen soc, ryzen sbc, x86, embedded, ryzen r1600, ryzen r1000, r1600, vega 3, dfi, raspberry pi, 1.8, fanless, amd ryzen, amd embedded, amd, small sbc, sbc, windows 10, benchmark

Id: kDUS_5yIfAo

Length: 15min 51sec (951 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 12 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/chx_]

Would anyone know where to get a case for it?

[u/CataclysmZA]

So several of these hooked up and playing Quake 3 would be...

A DFI LanParty?

[u/vithrell]

Pop it into RPi handheld enclosure, connect to battery power and game on!

[u/Encrypto90]

As 3D printing manufacturing and tooling develops, this should improve.