Minisforum N5 N5-Ryzen7-255
~$510
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Built-in: do you even need an add-on?
Its Radeon Graphics (RDNA2) iGPU transcodes about 5 concurrent 4K streams (Plex/Jellyfin). The iGPU handles transcode, but Frigate detection is smoother with an add-on (Coral/Hailo).
Estimates - curated and approximate; verify before buying.
Platform support
- Proxmox VE: supported - install: easy
Add-on accelerators that fit this box
- Google Coral USB Accelerator - USB - fits any box with a spare port. (~5 Frigate cameras)
- Hailo Hailo-8L (M.2) - Uses a spare M.2 slot (a second NVMe or the Wi-Fi slot). (~16 Frigate cameras)
- Hailo Hailo-8 (M.2) - Uses a spare M.2 slot (a second NVMe or the Wi-Fi slot). (~31 Frigate cameras)
- Nvidia Quadro P400 - Fits the PCIe slot (slot-powered, ~75W). (~25 Frigate cameras)
- Nvidia Quadro P1000 - Fits the PCIe slot (slot-powered, ~75W). (~25 Frigate cameras)
- Intel Arc A380 - Fits the PCIe slot (slot-powered, ~75W). (~25 Frigate cameras)
- Nvidia RTX A2000 12GB - Fits the PCIe slot (slot-powered, ~75W). (~25 Frigate cameras)
- Google M.2 Dual Edge TPU - Uses a spare M.2 slot (a second NVMe or the Wi-Fi slot). (~10 Frigate cameras)
- Google M.2 Accelerator A+E key - Uses a spare M.2 slot (a second NVMe or the Wi-Fi slot). (~5 Frigate cameras)
- Nvidia Quadro P620 - Fits the PCIe slot (slot-powered, ~75W). (~25 Frigate cameras)
- Nvidia Quadro P2000 - Fits the PCIe slot (slot-powered, ~75W). (~25 Frigate cameras)
- Nvidia Quadro P2200 - Fits the PCIe slot (slot-powered, ~75W). (~25 Frigate cameras)
- Nvidia Quadro T400 - Fits the PCIe slot (slot-powered, ~75W). (~25 Frigate cameras)
- Nvidia Quadro T600 - Fits the PCIe slot (slot-powered, ~75W). (~25 Frigate cameras)
- Nvidia Quadro T1000 - Fits the PCIe slot (slot-powered, ~75W). (~25 Frigate cameras)
- Nvidia RTX A400 - Fits the PCIe slot (slot-powered, ~75W). (~25 Frigate cameras)
- Nvidia RTX A1000 - Fits the PCIe slot (slot-powered, ~75W). (~25 Frigate cameras)
- Intel Arc A310 - Fits the PCIe slot (slot-powered, ~75W). (~25 Frigate cameras)
- Nvidia Tesla P4 - Fits the PCIe slot (slot-powered, ~75W). (~25 Frigate cameras)
- Nvidia Tesla T4 - Fits the PCIe slot (slot-powered, ~75W). (~25 Frigate cameras)
- Nvidia RTX 4000 SFF Ada - Fits the PCIe slot (slot-powered, ~75W). (~25 Frigate cameras)
- Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada - Fits the PCIe slot (slot-powered, ~75W). (~25 Frigate cameras)
- Hailo Hailo-10H (M.2) - Uses a spare M.2 slot (a second NVMe or the Wi-Fi slot). (~48 Frigate cameras)
- Google M.2 Accelerator B+M key - Uses a spare M.2 slot (a second NVMe or the Wi-Fi slot). (~5 Frigate cameras)
- Intel Arc Pro B50 - Fits the PCIe slot (slot-powered, ~75W). (~25 Frigate cameras)
- Nvidia RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell SFF - Fits the PCIe slot (slot-powered, ~75W). (~25 Frigate cameras)
A discrete GPU only fits boxes with a PCIe slot (and ≤75W); most mini PCs take a USB Coral or an M.2 Hailo instead.
Specs
- CPU
- AMD Ryzen 7 255 (8c)
- PassMark
- 28,854
- iGPU
- Radeon Graphics (RDNA2)
- iGPU SR-IOV
- -
- NIC
- Marvell AQC113 10GbE plus Realtek 5GbE x2
- NVMe slots
- 3
- Max RAM
- 96 GB
- TDP
- 65 W
- Idle
- 28 W