There's often a bit of confusion when it comes to a few of the more unfamiliar minis
KAMRUI / NiPoGi / CTONE are official sub-brands under ACEMAGICIAN's (ACEMAGIC) ODM/OEM umbrella.
The two most popular purchases made by our clients, with the more powerful 5800U and additional integrated GCN 5th gen Vega CU, have been these models
And these are often optimized with 2Rx8 dual rank memory to reach full bandwidth throughput, which allow for increased iGPU performance.
Clients have actually purchased the AMR5 more as a project board, then a mini PC. With its dual M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 slots, it's easy to add an external GPU.
Although the stronger choice in your budget based on current client purchases would be the Nucbox K1
...as the RDNA2 Radeon RX 680M integrated graphics are on a whole different level. That's within range of a GTX 1050 Ti desktop GPU.
AMD Ryzen™ 5 5500 6-Core, 12-Thread Unlocked Desktop Processor with Wraith Stealth Cooler
Silicon Power 1TB NVMe M.2 PCIe Gen3x4 2280 TLC R/W up to 3,400/3,000MB/s SSD (SU001TBP34A80M28AB)
Windows 10 Professional (32/64 Bit) 1 PC
At this point, you just choose a GPU that is 200mm overall length, or less. Choices range from
ASRock Challenger Arc A380 6GB GDDR6 PCI Express 4.0 ITX Video Card A380 CLI 6G OC to a GIGABYTE WINDFORCE OC GeForce RTX 3060 12GB GV-N3060WF2OC-12GD
It's a little over budget, but it's easy to build and it gives you some options to grow with both CPU and GPU.
MaxProAndU Team