At every size and level of success, businesses face challenges—from spinning up new initiatives, to cultivating new and existing clients, maintaining an even keel as markets shift, integrating paradigm-shifting technologies like AI, and on and on. With the right tools in hand, businesses can meet those challenges head-on and turn them into opportunities for growth. A good way to prepare for success is to equip teams with hardware designed to excel with future workloads—not just business-as-usual tasks. Today, this means PCs with strong CPU, GPU, and neural processor unit (NPU) performance. There are now systems on the market that provide those capabilities—even in smaller form factors—but marketing claims can be confusing. Real-world performance data can be the key to hardware investment decisions that pay off for years to come.
To help inform successful, forward-looking purchases, we tested three new AI PCs: an HP EliteDesk 8 Mini G1a Desktop Next Gen AI PC powered by an AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 350 processor and Dell Pro Micro Plus and Lenovo ThinkCentre M90q Gen 6 desktops—powered by Intel Core Ultra 7 265 vPro and Intel Core Ultra 7 265T vPro processors, respectively. Each desktop’s processor also included an NPU for AI-related tasks. To gauge each system’s real-world performance, we used a range of on-device AI and general productivity performance benchmarks.
In our tests, the AMD-powered HP EliteDesk 8 Mini G1a desktop provided strong general computing power and better AI performance than both the Intel-powered Dell Pro Micro Plus and Lenovo ThinkCentre M90q Gen 6—including up to 2.5x better on-device AI performance in one computer vision workload and a 61 percent win in one AI-related GPU workload. With better performance in demanding AI workloads, the AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 350 processor-powered HP EliteDesk 8 Mini G1a may be a smart AI PC choice for businesses that want to provide their teams with the gear they need to meet future challenges and succeed.
To learn more about how we evaluated the HP EliteDesk 8 Mini G1a and competitor AI PCs, see the report and infographic below.
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