GEEKOM A8 Mini PC A8 Silver+Black 2026

A shockingly fast little office PC with gaming DNA that it completely fails to live up to. Find it for $550 and never, ever try to game on it, and you'll be very happy.

Honestly, the CPU performance surprised us. That Ryzen 7 8745HS is no joke for a box this tiny, chewing through spreadsheets and multitasking without breaking a sweat. But the real shock was how limited the Radeon 780M graphics feel here. We know this iGPU can handle light esports, but with a terrible gaming score of 12.5 out of 100, this specific config or cooling setup clearly isn't built for frame rates. Keep your expectations strictly to 4K video streaming, not playing games.

Stacked next to the Apple Mac mini M4 Pro, the GEEKOM gets flattened in GPU tasks and efficiency, but it wins on raw port selection and up-front storage if you find it cheap. Against a traditional tower like the Dell Tower ECT1250, the A8 Mini sacrifices all upgradeability and power but reclaims your entire desk. The HP OmniDesk splits the difference nicely if you want a compact PC that doesn't completely give up on the idea of adding more RAM later.

You're in a weird spot with pricing ranging from a tempting $549 up to a silly $960. At the low end, you're getting a killer processor and a terabyte of storage in a microscopic case. At the high end, you're getting ripped off. Hunt down the $549 listing and it's a solid deal for an office PC, but pay a dollar more than that and you should just go look at a Mac mini instead.

The GEEKOM A8 Mini is the poster child for getting real work done without a giant tower hogging your desk. It packs an 8-core AMD Ryzen 7 8745HS and a snappy 1TB NVMe SSD into a 0.54kg box. The one thing to know is that this little machine is a home office beast hiding a weak spot, its integrated graphics absolutely crumble under anything tougher than Solitaire.

If you want to play games, edit 4K video timelines smoothly, or plan to keep this PC for many years while slowly upgrading parts, turn around right now. Go get a Lenovo Legion Tower or a Mac mini M4 Pro instead, because this mini PC will just frustrate you.

Buy the GEEKOM A8 Mini if you find it for that magical $549 price, need a Windows machine for a clutter-free desk, and solemnly swear you will never install a video game on it. It's a focused office soldier with a fantastic CPU that's completely hamstrung in any 3D task. If you ignore its limitations, you'll be thrilled, and if you don't, you'll feel like you bought a Ferrari with a lawnmower engine.