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Beelink SER9 review: AMD's Strix Point is its most powerful PC APU to date - but how does it game?


The Digital Foundry review of AMD's Ryzen AI 9 HX370 processor in the Beelink SER9 Mini PC. Gaming benchmarks vs 7840U and Steam Deck, plus power scaling to 65W

| Image credit: Digital Foundry The differences in A Plague Tale: Requiem are also interesting, with smaller margins that point to a memory bandwidth limitation - that's one of the few specs that doesn't see a huge lift with the HX 370. Cyberpunk 2077 played quite well, even at a 1080p output resolution, high settings and FSR 2 quality mode upscaling, with frame-rates above 30fps even through the Cherry Blossom Market that represents one of the most CPU-intensive areas of the game - and that's with full crowds enabled, something you don't see on consoles. We see similar results in our other streaming tests, going into 40fps territory, which suggests that FSR 3 frame generation might be a starter - and indeed, the tech works well to lift frame-rates into a 50-70fps window without deleterious levels of input lag.

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