The GEEKOM AS 6 is a new mini-PC created in collaboration with ASUS that uses an AMD hardware base to beat the Intel NUC 13 Pro, the latest compact PC from the chip giant and benchmark in this segment.

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GEEKOM AS 6 was created by an integrator in collaboration with ASUS and actually includes functions with ASUS Enhanced Software and MyASUS management application, including fan control among others. Smart fan and its modes performance and Peace to balance the noise and power needed to keep the temperature under control.

The integrator is betting on AMD versus Intel hardware for the most powerful NUCs it targets. And it includes processors such as Ryzen 9 6900HX 8 cores and 16 threads along with graphics Radeon 680M higher performance than Intel’s Iris iGPU. The rest of the main specifications are maintained at a high level, such as the LPDDR5 memory that it is equipped with and the dual M.2 PCIe 4.0 SSD unit with a size of up to 2 TB.

AS 6 supports the latest wireless standards, Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2 as well as the standard for connecting peripherals, USB4. It has two HDMI 2.1 video outputs and a DisplayPort 1.4 port, complemented by an additional five USB ports and audio-related ports.

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