Zotac Magnus: the mini-PC gets a real graphics card

Written by Guillaume
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A GeForce RTX 5060 Ti in a PC with a volume of just over 2.5 liters? Yes, it's possible.

Generally speaking, a mini-PC means a machine without a graphics card, making do with the graphics solution integrated into its processor. In the best of cases, this results in something quite decent, but still in difficulty when the games are modern and/or a little technically ambitious. Only recently has AMD launched APUs with graphics solutions powerful enough to run games... and at what price.

Zotac

We don't yet have an exact idea of the price Zotac will be asking for its latest find, but early reports suggest something like $1,500. Not an insignificant sum in itself, but let's face it, Zotac's machine looks good on paper. Designed around a GeForce RTX 5060 Ti graphics card, the Zotac Magnus EN275060TC is a mini-PC with a volume of 2.65 liters and a thickness of just 62.2 mm (length 210 mm and width 203 mm). Few machines can boast a true desktop graphics card with 16 GB VRAM - so it's not a model derived from notebook products - in such a small space.

Zotac

Alongside this, Zotac integrates a 20-core processor, the Core Ultra 7 255HX (8P cores + 12E cores) with 36 MB of combined cache and a maximum operating frequency of 5.2 GHz. The machine is delivered "naked", i.e. without SSD and RAM, but can be upgraded with two NVMe 2280 SSDs, one in PCIe Gen 5 and the other in PCIe Gen 4. As for RAM, a maximum of 96 GB DDR5-6400 can be integrated thanks to the two SO-DIMM slots. The result is a real little beast of a machine that also boasts WiFi 7, Bluetooth 5.4, two 2.5 GbE network ports, five USB Type A 3.2 Gen 2 ports and two Thunderbolt 4 ports.

The triple question now is not only its price in euros, of course, but also its launch date in France and, finally, its ability to keep all this cool. No mean feat.