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Minisforum AI X1 Pro: Gerbil – Run Large Language Models Locally

Gerbil is a desktop app to easily run Large Language Models locally. The software is powered by KoboldCpp, a fork of llama.cpp.

For this article in the series I put the Radxa Cubie A7A single board computer through a series of benchmarks.

The AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 came to market in the third quarter of 2024. It has 12 cores and 24 threads, with 4 Zen 5 cores, and 8 Zen 5c cores.

For this article in the series I put the Radxa ROCK 4D single board computer through a series of benchmarks.

Waydroid is a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on Ubuntu Touch running Wayland based desktop environments.

Radxa Cubie A7A is billed as an ultra-compact yet feature-rich SBC designed to deliver powerful performance in space-constrained environments.

Let’s start with ComfyUI, open source node-based software for generative AI. I install ROCm, ComfyUI and a useful model manager.

A simple real-world test of the performance of the Radeon 890M with Jan, an open source ChatGPT-alternative that runs 100% offline.

This series looks at the Radxa ROCK 4D single board computer. It’s billed as a high-performance SBC for Edge AI and 4K multimedia.

I put the Minisforum AI X1 Pro mini PC under a series of power consumption tests and compare it to other machines.