The Minisforum N5 Air follows a Micro-ATX form factor and houses a 1TB NVMe SSD for fast primary storage. Its physical dimensions come in at 252 mm deep, 202 mm wide, and 199 mm tall, with a total volume of roughly 10,129.9 cm³. The unit weighs 4000 g, placing it among the heavier entries in the Mini PC space, though still compact enough for desktop use.
The processor in the Minisforum N5 Air is an 8-core, 16-thread CPU running at a base clock of 3.8 GHz per core and capable of boosting up to 4.95 GHz under load, all within a 45W TDP envelope. It supports multithreading and 64-bit operation, and includes integrated graphics. Cache configuration sits at 8 MB of L2 (1 MB per core) and 16 MB of L3 (2 MB per core), with a clock multiplier of 38 that is not unlocked for manual adjustment. The maximum rated CPU temperature is 100 °C.
The integrated GPU operates at a base clock of 800 MHz, boosting up to 2600 MHz, and delivers 8.294 TFLOPS of floating-point performance backed by 768 shading units, 48 texture mapping units, and 32 ROPs, resulting in a texture rate of 129.6 GTexels/s and a pixel rate of 86.4 GPixel/s. Built on a 4 nm process with 25,390 million transistors, it connects via PCIe 4 and supports DirectX 12 Ultimate, OpenGL 4.6, OpenCL 2.1, ray tracing, double precision floating point, and multi-display output across up to four screens simultaneously. DLSS is not supported.
The Minisforum N5 Air is equipped with 64GB of DDR5 RAM running at 5600 MHz, providing a solid memory configuration for a compact desktop system of this class.
Wireless connectivity covers Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax) along with backwards-compatible Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 5, and Wi-Fi 4 standards, paired with Bluetooth 5.2. On the wired side, two RJ45 ports handle Ethernet, while the USB layout includes two Thunderbolt 4 ports, two USB 4 40Gbps ports, two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports, and one USB 2.0 port — there are no USB 3.2 Gen 1 or Type-C ports of any generation. Display output is handled by two HDMI 2.1 ports and two DisplayPort outputs, supporting up to four screens. A 3.5 mm audio jack, VGA connector, and S/PDIF output are not included.
In PassMark testing, the Minisforum N5 Air records a multi-threaded score of 29,752 alongside a single-threaded score of 3,774, reflecting the CPU's overall throughput capacity and per-core responsiveness respectively.
The system uses a laptop-class CPU paired with a Radeon 780M GPU built on the RDNA 3.0 architecture, with stereoscopic 3D support included. Memory can be configured up to 256GB across two channels, with a maximum supported RAM speed of 7500 MHz, though ECC memory is not supported and there is no external memory slot. The CPU supports NX bit and a broad set of instruction sets including MMX, F16C, FMA3, AES, AVX, AVX2, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2, but does not use big.LITTLE technology. The unit does not use flash storage or air-water cooling, and comes with a one-year warranty.
