The Minisforum M1 Plus follows a Micro-ATX form factor and occupies a total volume of 884.52 cm³, with dimensions of 126 mm wide, 54 mm tall, and 130 mm thick. Storage is handled by a 1000GB NVMe SSD, offering fast read and write access through the NVMe interface rather than a conventional SATA drive.
The processor operates with a 45W TDP and a maximum junction temperature of 100°C, featuring a hybrid core configuration of six cores at 2.4 GHz and eight cores at 1.8 GHz, with a turbo clock speed reaching 4.8 GHz. It supports 20 threads through multithreading and carries a 24 MB L3 cache, along with a clock multiplier of 24, though the multiplier is locked. The CPU is 64-bit compatible and includes integrated graphics, while the clock multiplier cannot be adjusted for overclocking.
The integrated GPU has a turbo frequency of 1400 MHz and is built on a 10 nm semiconductor process, with support for up to four simultaneous displays. It is compatible with PCIe 4, DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.6, and OpenCL 3, covering a broad range of graphics and compute workloads without requiring a discrete card.
The Minisforum M1 Plus comes equipped with 32GB of DDR5 RAM running at a speed of 4800 MHz, providing a solid memory foundation for everyday multitasking and more demanding workloads alike.
Wireless connectivity covers Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax) alongside backward-compatible Wi-Fi 6, 5, and 4 standards, paired with Bluetooth 5.2 for peripheral connections. On the wired side, the unit provides two USB 2.0 ports, two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports, and one USB 4 40Gbps port that also functions as a Thunderbolt 4 connection, while USB 3.2 Gen 1, USB 3.2 Gen 2x2, and Thunderbolt 3 are absent. Display output is handled by one HDMI 2.1 port and one DisplayPort, and a single RJ45 port covers wired networking. Audio connectivity includes a 3.5 mm headset jack, though there is no VGA connector or S/PDIF output.
In PassMark benchmarking, the Minisforum M1 Plus achieves a multi-thread score of 23,941 alongside a single-thread score of 3,386, reflecting the processor's capability across both parallel and sequential workloads.
The system uses a laptop-class CPU with big.LITTLE technology and supports a range of instruction sets including SSE 4.1, SSE 4.2, AVX, AES, FMA3, F16C, and MMX, along with NX bit for hardware-level security. Graphics are provided by the Iris Xe Graphics 96EU, which features 96 execution units. Memory can be configured up to a maximum of 64GB, with RAM speeds reaching up to 5200 MHz across two memory channels, though ECC memory is not supported and there is no external memory slot. The unit ships with a one-year warranty.
