HP Z2 Mini G1a

The HP Z2 Mini G1a uses a Micro-ATX form factor and occupies a compact footprint with dimensions of 200 mm in height, 168 mm in thickness, and 85 mm in width, resulting in a total volume of 2856 cm³. Storage is handled by a 4000GB NVMe SSD, combining high capacity with the faster transfer speeds that the NVMe interface provides over traditional storage options.

The CPU runs 16 cores at a base clock of 3 GHz each, with a turbo frequency of 5.1 GHz, and supports 32 threads through multithreading, enabling solid parallel processing across demanding tasks. Cache is organized across three levels — 1280 KB of L1, 16 MB of L2 at 1 MB per core, and 64 MB of L3 at 4 MB per core — while a clock multiplier of 30 is fixed, as the multiplier is not unlocked. The processor has a thermal design power of 55W, a maximum operating temperature of 100 °C, includes integrated graphics, and fully supports 64-bit computing.

The graphics card delivers 14.85 TFLOPS of floating-point performance from a 4 nm chip, with a base clock of 1295 MHz that boosts up to 2900 MHz under load. It features 2560 shading units, 160 texture mapping units producing a texture rate of 464 GTexels/s, and 64 render output units contributing to a pixel rate of 185.6 GPixel/s. The card supports ray tracing, Double Precision Floating Point, and connects via PCIe 5, while being compatible with DirectX 12 Ultimate, OpenGL 4.6, and OpenCL 2.1 for broad API coverage. Up to four displays can be driven simultaneously, and the card is fully capable across graphics and compute workloads.

The system is equipped with 128GB of DDR5 RAM running at a speed of 8000 MHz, providing a substantial amount of memory bandwidth and capacity for handling memory-intensive workloads.

Wireless connectivity covers Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) along with Wi-Fi 6E, 6, 5, and 4, paired with Bluetooth 5.4 for short-range communication. On the wired side, the USB layout includes 2 USB 2.0 ports, 3 USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports, 1 USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C port, and 2 USB 4 40Gbps ports, while there are no USB 3.2 Gen 1, Gen 2x2, or USB 4 20Gbps ports present. Display output is handled by 2 DisplayPort 2.1 outputs, with no HDMI or VGA connectors available. The unit also includes 2 Thunderbolt 4 ports, a 3.5 mm headset jack, and no RJ45, S/PDIF, or Thunderbolt 3 ports.

In PassMark testing, the system scores 52,016 in the overall multi-core benchmark and 4,138 in the single-core test, rising to 57,737 when overclocked. On the graphics side, the PassMark G3D result comes in at 17,936, while the DirectCompute benchmark registers 9,076.

The Radeon 8060S GPU is based on the RDNA 3.5 architecture and supports stereoscopic 3D, though it does not include XeSS (XMX). Memory tops out at 128GB across four channels at a maximum speed of 8000 MHz, with ECC memory support included, and there is no external memory slot or flash storage. The CPU is compatible with both laptop and desktop configurations, does not use big.LITTLE technology, and supports a range of instruction sets including MMX, F16C, FMA3, AES, AVX, AVX2, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2, along with NX bit for hardware-level memory protection. The product comes with a 3-year warranty.