What if Valve’s Steam Machine was a 3.8-liter tower instead of a 3.8-liter cube, with a desktop-grade Nvidia RTX 5060 GPU instead of an AMD RX 7600 — along with a more powerful CPU and many faster ports? Well, it will cost you around $1,500 and it will be called the Minisforum Atomman G1 Pro.
MinisForum is one of the only companies shipping such powerful discrete GPUs in mini-PCs, and its previous Atomman G7 came the closest to PT Valve’s own spec that anyone has sold. But the new G1 Pro could be a better competitor, now with an integrated power supply (like Valve) and even better components.
The most surprising feature is a full but tiny desktop graphics card – check out how cute it is in the render below! – which fits into the top of the chassis. (Minisforum doesn’t claim it’s upgradeable, just FYI, but it does claim it provides the full 145W power you’ll find in other desktop 5060 cards.)
And, in “Beast Mode”, Minisforum says it can run the AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX CPU at 100W while the GPU remains at 145W. you also get a rather Two M.2 2280 slot for NVMe SSD storage, two SO-DIMM slots for up to 96GB of DDR5 RAM, and five Display outputs for up to four displays at once (2x DP2.1, 1x DP 1.4, and 2x HDMI 2.1).
It’s on sale now for $1,440 with 32GB and 1TB, shipping in mid-January – which is honestly starting to seem like a good deal now that RAM prices are out of control. There’s also a bring your own RAM and storage barebones version for $1,040, though it’s not available to order yet.
Valve is still not talking about price, but I expect it to be more affordable than this. Still, Valve says it’s put a lot of work into cooling, noise, and wireless connectivity, and the Linux drivers are still more mature on the AMD GPU side if you’re considering a Bayesight or SteamOS install. New videos from GamersNexus include Linux benchmarks for the desktop RTX 5060, maybe check them out?
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