Beelink GT Pro: 950-ml-PC mit AMD Ryzen 3000 ab 293 Euro per Crowdfunding

Beelink GT Pro PC

The Chinese manufacturer Beelink has started the swarm financing of its equally versatile as well as compact Mini PC Beelink GTR Pro with a 35-Watt APU of the series AMD Ryzen 3000H (Picasso") manufactured in 12 nm.

Mini-PC on Picasso basis

The basis of the Beelink GTR Pro is an AMD Ryzen 5 3550H with four Zen+ cores and SMT for a total of eight threads at 2.1 to 3.7 Ghz and a TDP classification of the APU power consumption of 35 watts including a Vega8 Mobile with 512 shaders with a clock frequency of 1,2 Ghz, which may be used officially but only on a DDR4 memory of up to 64 GB specified with up to 2,400 MT/s.

Although many users are looking for a Mini PC with the new 7 nm Apus of the Ryzen 4000U/H or Ryzen 4000G series like the new Asrock Deskmini X300, the crowdfundingPlatform Indiegogo financed GTR Pro by Beelink in this regard will be accepted certain compromises.

Beelink wants to offer with the 168 120 47 mm large and with 950 ml volume extremely compact GTR Pro rather a small multi-talent on Picasso basis with numerous connection options.

Beelink GTR Pro

Fixed memory in the form of two Pcie Gen 3 x4 (Nvme) and SATA3 Ssds can be installed via two M.2 expansion slots (2280), for Pcie Ssds Beelink indicates a maximum data rate of 1,900 MB/s. The main components of the system are to be cooled by three copper heatpipes and two silent fans.

Wi-Fi 6 and Hi-Fi DAC

In addition to Wi-Fi 6 (formerly 802.11ax) and 2 Gigabit Ethernet, the Beelink GTR Pro with 6 USB 3.0 (Type-A) alias USB 3.2 Gen 1 (5 GB/s), 2 HDMI, 1 Displayport 1.4 and 2 USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-C with Alternate Mode"and also offers a Hi-Fi DAC of the type Ess Sabre 9018 (PDF), which is also used on the popular Fiio headphone amplifiers.

A CMOS reset button, a fingerprint sensor integrated into the housing and the mandatory audio inputs on the I/O shield, as well as a 3.5 mm jack connector for headphones and headsets round off the variety of connectivity offered by the Mini PC.

Smartphones should be integrated via USB-C and be able to use the same display device by means of a special "same screen function", which can be switched into the phone mode and computer mode via a button on the housing.

In addition, the two HDMI ports, the Displayport 1.4 and another Displayport, which is implemented via USB-C with Alternate Mode, are to be able to control up to four displays at the same time and be supplied with image material. If desired, the Beelink GTR Pro disappears discreetly behind the monitor via VESA mount.

From 293 euros on Indiegogo

The Beelink GTR Pro is still in the c
oncept phase and can be co-financed by Indiegogo. The "bare" barebone, consisting of a housing, mainboard and Picasso APU, is available at a current price of 293 euros (as of 7 August 2020), as well as an extensive accessory package with HDMI and USB-C cable, wall and smartphone holder as well as EU, UK and US power adapters.

In the bundle with 8 GB DDR4-2400, a 256 GB SSD and a 1 TB HDD, Beelink currently requires 380 euros for the GTR Pro, which in the largest version with 16 GB DDR4-2400, a 512 GB Nvme SSD and also 1 TB HDD memory with 413 euros.

The first 200 copies of each configuration are discounted by 40 percent, so the prices will later be 410 euros (barebone), 530 euros (8 GB/128 GB/1 TB) and 580 euros (16 GB/512 GB/1 TB).