S600 evaluation: The Mini computer of R9-5900HX is as big as a palm

Today, let's unpack a very interesting product, a palm sized mini pc from the S600 of EGSMTPC. Although it is very small, its performance is good. The CPU uses AMD Ryzen 5900HX 8-core 16 threads. The nominal TDP45W is usually used in some thin and light notebooks or game books. Its performance is good, and it also carries 16G of memory and 512G of solid state.

The main body of the main unit feels very delicate when held in hand, because the whole unit is made of ABS material. With the gray black color matching, there is no problem in texture. The bottom of the fuselage has a large area of heat dissipation holes. With the full ABS fuselage, heat dissipation should be guaranteed.

In fact, there are a lot of interfaces. There are two USB3.2 interfaces on the front, a full-featured TypeC interface and a 3.5mm audio interface. It can not only transmit data, but also be compatible with DP1.2, and can achieve 4K 60HZ video output. There are four USB2.0, two RJ45LAN interfaces, two HDMI2.0 and one DC power interface on the back of the fuselage. It would be perfect if there was another SD card slot.

However, such a small body is really difficult to achieve perfection in terms of interfaces. After knowing the appearance of the product, we can take it apart to see the internal structure and the specific configuration of the hardware. It is easy to open it by unscrewing the four screws on the four legs of the back foot pad. There is a 2.5-inch hard disk on the bottom shell. It is very nice to install a large mechanical hard disk.

The internal structure looks very fresh, the workmanship is also very good, and there is no sense of cheapness. The memory actually uses the original product Nvida, two 8G 3200MHz to form a 16G dual channel. The bandwidth and latency are pretty good, but they are OK.

The hard disk uses NVME 512G M.2 interface, NVMe protocol, and its solid state performance is average. It is an entry-level product, and its price is more than 50$, or QLC particles. But then again, although it is not very good, it is also relatively good, and it is not comparable to any other brand. After all, the world's first sales volume is not a false name, so it can barely be used.

The hard disk is also equipped with a heat sink, which connects the bottom shell as a heat sink. However, the 2.5 inch hard disk flat cable on the bottom shell is just stuck between the heat sink and the bottom shell when it is closed. That location is also the main control with the largest heat output, which may affect certain heat dissipation effects. It is recommended to remove the flat cable if the hard disk is not installed. Below the SSD is the wireless network card. This chip can be seen on many laptops. When the AX210 was out of stock, it was promoted. It supports WIFI61200 megabit rate and Bluetooth 5.0. The performance is OK.

In terms of specific performance, we can see from CINEBENCH R23 that it is the score of a normal 8-core 16 thread. The single core performance is very good, running 1375PTS, while the multi-core performance is 8275PTS. This is still the case in CPUZ. The single core is very good. It ran 583 points. The overall performance is slightly better than that of the i7 8700K. The CPU performance can be seen from the paper data, but the core display performance. I tested three mainstream online games, and the performance is in line with expectations, which is basically more than 750Ti.

Finally, I would like to conclude that the performance of the S600 Mini PC in the past few days has no obvious shortcomings. The workmanship is also excellent. Although the size is small and the internal structure is compact, there is no problem with heat dissipation. After all, the power consumption is there. But I always think it is a very small product, which is very suitable for those lazy users who are pursuing minimalism or want to install an iTX pc. And I think the price is really good. Would you buy such a small console?