Separately, its synthetic benchmark results place the Radeon 780M iGPU in a similar performance range to entry-level dedicated Nvidia GeForce RTX GPUs. But if you want more power, Minisforum also offers an eGPU dock for the X1 Lite for around $98, allowing an external GPU to be connected via OCuLink.

And in case you’re planning to do so, here’s the kind of performance gain you can expect.

Minisforum X1 Lite benchmark and gaming performance

ETA Prime also notes that the X1 Lite uses Minisforum’s standard graphical BIOS, with selectable Silent, Balanced, and Performance profiles. The YouTuber tested the mini PC in Performance mode to extract maximum sustained performance. They also manually increased the iGPU VRAM allocation to 8 GB from system memory using the BIOS’s GFX configuration settings.

During testing, the video shows that under sustained CPU load, the Ryzen 7 255, which is essentially a rebadged Ryzen 7 8845HS, briefly peaked near 70 W before settling at approximately 64 W, closely aligning with Minisforum’s claimed 65 W operating envelope. ETA Prime also measured total system power draw at the wall, reporting around 8 W at idle and approximately 12 W during 4K video playback. While gaming at 1080p, the system averaged about 71 W, with a maximum observed draw of 83 W.

What is notable is that the Radeon 780M iGPU in the AMD Ryzen 7 255 performed similarly to the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2050 in terms of raw benchmark performance. In 3DMark Time Spy, the iGPU scored around 3,322 points, whereas according to Notebookcheck’s database, the average score for the RTX 2050 is approximately 3,461 in the same test.