ZOTAC is well known as one of the AIB makers for NVIDIA GPUs, but the company is also involved in some industrial side of things, including things like Mini-PCs. Recently, the brand launched the ZBOX MAGNUS EN275060TC Mini-PC that, in its mere 2.65L volume, packs a full-fat, desktop-grade NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti GPU inside.
A Desktop GPU Inside ZOTAC Mini-PC
The ZBOX MAGNUS EN275060TC is quite small at the size of just 210 x 203 x 62.2 mm, and for comparison, the Apple Mac Studio measures 200 x 200 x 94 mm. The ZOTAC unit covers just a smidge more desk space, but volume-wise, it is smaller (2.65L) than Mac Studio’s 3.76L – ignoring the rounded corners which makes calculations infinitely more difficult, that is.
Of course, the reason we brought up Mac Studio here is for its excellent performance given its size – the chassis is capable of housing an M4 Max or even M3 Ultra chip that goes toe-to-toe with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080’s performance in the latter’s case. Of course, credit has to be given to ZOTAC, as the EN275060TC manages to fit an RTX 5060 Ti inside, which comes pretty close to M4 Max’s performance despite its notably smaller chassis (and you can VESA-mount it behind a monitor, which you can’t do on a Mac Studio).
All told, the mini-PC is quite a capable machine aside from the beefy GPU for its size. The CPU is Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX with 8P+12E cores, paired with up to 96GB of DDR5-6400 CSODIMM or DDR5-5600 SODIMM, as well as two M.2 SSD slots. It also gets a whopping six display outputs courtesy of one HDMI 2.1b from GPU, three DisplayPort 2.1b from GPU, along with two more Thunderbolt 4 ports from the CPU. There’s also five USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10Gbps) ports, two 2.5GbE LAN ports, and Wi-Fi 7 for connectivity.
Suffice to say, this machine is surely giving even ASUS’s ROG NUC a run for its money; users who still prefer to use Windows machines will have another option for gaming or creative work, even though this may not be ZOTAC’s main selling point for this PC (it’s marketed for AI uses – what do you expect?)
Pokdepinion: As a sucker for space efficiency, this machine makes me drool.
