The MINISFORUM UM790 Pro is another Mini PC from the Venus series. Announced last week with the UM780 Pro, it was the first to go on sale. The UM790 Pro Mini PC packs the AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS “Phoenix” processor featuring 8 Zen 4 CPU cores and Radeon 780M integrated graphics based on RDNA 3 architecture. Besides, it comes with a new Cold Wave 2.0 cooling system, up to 64GB RAM DDR5, WiFi 6E (via Intel Killer AX1675 wireless card), two full-speed PD-powered USB4 ports, and more. Another good news is that the MINISFORUM UM790 Pro Venus Series Mini PC is now on sale for $519 (barebone) and up.
Availability and price
As with most of MINISFORUM’s Mini PCs, their prices start at barebone version, that is, without RAM, SSD, and OS pre-installed. So as we mentioned, the UM790 Pro is available for $519 (barebone) and up. Below are prices depending on the available configuration.
- $619 for 16GB RAM with 512GB SSD
- $669 for 32GB RAM with 512GB SSD
- $699 for 32GB RAM with 1TB SSD
- $789 for 64GB RAM with 1TB SSD
By the way, you can use our discount coupon: AndroidTVBox ($10 OFF). MINISFORUM says the mini PC should begin shipping to customers by the end of June.
Read also: Minisforum UM560XT is a New Ryzen 5 5600H Venus Series Mini PC
MINISFORUM UM790 Pro Venus Series Mini PC Features
The UM790 Pro is a mini desktop computer measuring 130 x 126 x 52mm and has a metal body with a volume of 0.8 liters. You can easily put it in your backpack, it doesn’t take up much space on your desk, and you can hide it behind a monitor because it supports VESA mounting. The heart of this venus series Mini PC is the aforementioned AMD’s Ryzen 9 7940HS processor, which is a 35-54 watt chip with 8 cores, 16 threads, support for speeds up to 5.2 GHz, 8MP of L2 cache, 16MB of L3 cache, and 12 RDNA 3 compute units. Has integrated AMD Radeon 780M Graphics (frequency 2800MHz).
In addition, the UM790 Pro has two SODIMM slots for up to 64GB of DDR5-5600 dual-channel memory and two M.2 2280 slots for PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs which can be set up in RAID0 or RAID1 configurations.
By the way, it is worth adding, MINISFORUM UM790 Pro has Intel Killer AX1675 wireless card (using M.2 230 slot) with support for WiFi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2. Besides, 2.5G Ethernet is also available. In addition, the Mini PC supports quad [email protected] display via 2x HDMI 2.1 and 2x USB4. As MINISFORUM says, the UM790 Pro adopts an innovative thermal system with liquid metal and active cooling for memory and SSD. The Cold Wave 2.0 offers better thermal performance under lower noise level.
The UM790 Pro ports include:
- 2 x HDMI 2.1 (4K/144Hz)
- 2 x USB4 (40 Gbps w/DisplayPort Alt mode with support for up to 8K/60Hz)
- 4 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A
- 2.5 GbE Ethernet
- 3.5mm audio
- DC power input (19V AC adapter included)
A device equipped with an SSD is to be delivered with pre-installed Windows 11 Pro. In addition, the user is to have a graphical BIOS at his disposal. Compared to the traditional BIOS, the graphical BIOS features a more user-friendly configuration interface.
We hope that the aforementioned UM780 Pro Venus Series Mini PC powered by the Ryzen 7 7840HS processor will be available soon. In the meantime, take a closer look at the UM790 Pro Mini PC on the manufacturer’s website.
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