- GMK K12 uses Oculink and USB4 to make EGPU completely compatible with plug-and-play
- Ryzen 7 h 255 pushes 70W under load, weird in mini budget pcs the palm size
- Triple M.2 SSD slots make K12 unusually capable of handling mass storage matrices
GMK has launched the K12, a mini PC with a price of 2,099 yuan (approximately $ 292), designed for users looking for a compact but expandable system.
Unlike typical budget systems, K12 admits both Oculink and USB4, which makes external GPU connectivity a practical reality without modifying internal components.
Ryzen 7 h 255 of AMD, the GMK K12 presents a Zen 4 cores and 16 wire processor with watch speeds ranging from 3.8 GHz to 4.9GHz.
A small factor with surprising thermal head space
GMK (originally in Chinese) says that the chip can maintain an energy wrap of 70 W under a sustained load, which places it well above what is generally expected of small -shaped factor devices.
The Radeon 780M GPU integrated handles lighter games and creative work loads, although its true strength lies in supporting external GPU docks on Oculink or USB4.
One of the main points of this device is its unusually broad storage and memory capacity, since it has three PCIE 4.0 m.2 slots, each of which admits up to 8 TB SSD, carrying the total storage to 24TB theoretical, and also comes with two DDR5 slots, which admit up to 128 GB of RAM to 5600MHZ.
While such specifications are far beyond what most mini PC users require, they give the K12 flexibility to operate as a light workstation or an experimental commercial PC for tasks with heavy data.
With such power comes heating problems, and the K12 manages this with a double fan system backed by a heat disperser of the steam chamber.
The GMK chassis includes dual air owner and cooling profiles by the user: Silence (45W), balanced (54W) and performance (65W).
It is possible that this approach does not match the traditional cooling of the workstation, but provides more control than most systems in their size class.
On the connectivity side, the K12 admits up to four 4K screens through HDMI 2.1, Displayport 1.4 and USB4, with data transfer administered through dual Ethernet ports 2.5g and Wi-Fi 6E.
In particular, the Oculink port on the front panel allows the support of EGPU without loss, and the USB4 port admits the data speeds of 40 Gbps and the energy delivery of 120 W.
That said, GMK K12 does not aim to replace high -end desktop computers or games towers; It presents a combination of affordability, expansion and performance control that is often seen at this price.
