This teeny unit might look like an adorable little AMD graphics card, but it's actually a fully formed PC with surprising performance

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I've often thought about what sort of components you can cram into the smallest space, because I'm a nerd and this is the sort of thing I think about when my head hits the pillow every evening. However, when it comes to gaming I'm still stuck on the idea that I'll need a proper GPU somewhere in any miniature build to really get the sort of tiny powerhouse I truly desire.

That's a bit of an old-fashioned concept, though. Take this Next SBC model, for example. It's so small it could easily be mistaken for a mini-GPU in its own right, but when it comes to gaming it's still got the goods.

ETA Prime got its hands on a review sample of this as-yet-unannounced X86 SBC (single board computer) model, replete with a Ryzen 7 7840HS and an adorable miniature cooler (via Notebookcheck). And I'll bite: It's got my heart all a-flutter thanks to its combination of weeny dimensions and proper power.

It's so small it can be held easily in the palm of your hand, but thanks to that Phoenix Point APU and the Radeon 780M handling the graphics duties, it's still capable of cranking out some decent gaming performance. It's the sort of chip you'd find in some fully-fledged gaming laptops (albeit usually in conjunction with a proper GPU), and many high-powered mini PCs, meaning it's got a surprising amount of grunt for its size.

Plus, just look at it. Don't you want to take it home, plug it into your monitor, and marvel at how far miniature gaming devices have come?

There are some caveats to going this small, of course. The LPDDR5 RAM is soldered to the board, although there are apparently going to be 16 GB and 32 GB variants. Plus, that APU isn't one of the latest Strix Point chips, which is likely to be an attempt to keep costs down. Still, it's got that RDNA 3 iGPU and it can swing for the fences in certain games in ways you might not expect for something so teeny.

Doom Eternal is a very well-optimised game, but a stunning-looking one, too. At 1080p medium settings, the little monster