Beelink SER10 MAX

The Beelink SER10 MAX is a quiet, aluminum-clad desktop for people who want a 12-core AMD chip and a 10GbE port in a box about 5 inches square. It runs the Ryzen AI 9 HX 470, a light refresh of the HX 370 in the Beelink SER9, and reviewers measured only single-digit gains over that chip. Memory now sits in two SO-DIMM slots instead of being soldered, the network port moves from 2.5GbE to 10GbE, and the warranty runs three years. The tradeoff is memory speed, because DDR5-5600 sticks feed the Radeon 890M graphics more slowly than the soldered LPDDR5X in the SER9.

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Beelink SER10 MAX Comparison Chart

4 configurations

Configuration	RAM	OS	Performance	List price	Amazon price	Compare
32GB/1TB/Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 (Silver, Windows 11 Pro)	32 GB	Windows 11 Pro	6.4	$1,399.00	Loading...	Details Performance Rating 6.4 Operating System Windows 11 Pro RAM 32 GB DDR5 SO-DIMM, 2-channel (2x SO-DIMM, DDR5-5600)
64GB/1TB/Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 (Silver, Windows 11 Pro)	64 GB	Windows 11 Pro	6.6	$1,699.00	Loading...	Details Performance Rating 6.6 Operating System Windows 11 Pro RAM 64 GB DDR5 SO-DIMM, 2-channel (2x SO-DIMM, DDR5-5600)
32GB/1TB/Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 (OpenClaw, Ubuntu)	32 GB	Linux	6.4	$1,339.00	Loading...	Details Performance Rating 6.4 Operating System Linux RAM 32 GB DDR5 SO-DIMM, 2-channel (2x SO-DIMM, DDR5-5600)
64GB/1TB/Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 (OpenClaw, Ubuntu)	64 GB	Linux	6.6	$1,599.00	Check Amazon	Details Performance Rating 6.6 Operating System Linux RAM 64 GB DDR5 SO-DIMM, 2-channel (2x SO-DIMM, DDR5-5600)

Specs shared by every configuration

Processor	Twelve-core 2.00 Ghz (max 5.20 Ghz) AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470
GPU	Integrated AMD Radeon 890M
Internal Storage	1 TB NVMe SSD
Dimensions width x length x thickness	5.31 x 5.31 x 1.76 inches (134.87 x 134.87 x 44.7 mm)
Weight	unknown
WiFi	Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax)
Bluetooth	Bluetooth 5.2
Ethernet	1 Ethernet port at 10 Gbps
HDMI	1 Full-Size HDMI Port
DisplayPort	1 DisplayPort (DP 1.4, 4K at 240Hz)
VGA	No VGA Ports
USB Ports	2 USB 2.0, 2 USB 3, 2 USB-C (1 USB4) Front: USB-C 10Gbps (data), USB-A 10Gbps. Rear: USB4, USB-A 10Gbps, 2x USB 2.0
Thunderbolt Ports	No
OCuLink	No
Internal SATA Ports	No SATA ports
Card Reader	No Card Reader
Headphone Jack	2x 3.5mm (front and rear)
Fanless	No
VESA Mount	No
In the Box	Mini PC, 120W power adapter, HDMI cable, user manual
Expandability	2x DDR5 SO-DIMM slots, 2x M.2 2280 PCIe 4.0 x4 (8TB total), replaceable M.2 Wi-Fi card

Ports and networking

The chassis measures about 5.3 by 5.3 by 1.8 inches, the same case as the SER9, with an aluminum shell over a plastic base. The front holds the power button, a clear-CMOS pinhole, a 3.5mm audio jack, a 10Gbps USB-C port that carries data only, and a 10Gbps USB-A port. The back carries the barrel power input, a 40Gbps USB4 port with display output and power delivery, HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 1.4, a second 3.5mm jack, a 10GbE port, one more 10Gbps USB-A port, and two USB 2.0 ports. Beelink rates both HDMI and DisplayPort for 4K at 240Hz, and HDMI, DisplayPort, and USB4 can run three 4K displays together.

Robtech identified the network chip as a Marvell 10GbE controller, a large step from the 2.5GbE port on the SER9. Wireless comes from an Intel AX200 card with Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2, which sits in its own M.2 2230 slot and can be replaced. Robtech saw no dropouts on Wi-Fi at 39 feet from the router, but found the Bluetooth range worse than the SER9’s. Beelink lists Wake-on-LAN and automatic power-on, and Tom’s Hardware pointed to the auto power-on feature as useful for a box that runs as a networked compute unit. There is no OCuLink port and only one Ethernet port, so an external GPU has to go through USB4 at its 40Gbps limit.

Performance, memory, and cooling

The HX 470 pairs four Zen 5 cores that boost to 5.2GHz with eight Zen 5c cores, for 12 cores and 24 threads, and its Radeon 890M has 16 compute units clocked up to 3.1GHz. ETA PRIME saw the chip hold 54 to 55W after a two-minute boost to 64W. Against an HX 370 at the same 54W, he measured about 6 percent more single-core and 7.4 percent more multi-core in Geekbench 6, roughly 5 percent more in Cinebench R24, and a 3DMark Time Spy score of 4,221, about 7.5 percent higher. Robtech measured a smaller gap in Cinebench R23 multi-core, about 1 percent over the SER9’s best score. The chip is a clock bump on the same core count and the same iGPU.

Two SO-DIMM slots hold DDR5-5600, so you can add or replace RAM, but the sticks are slower than the SER9’s soldered LPDDR5X, which Robtech noted ran at 7,500 MT/s, and the difference shows up in graphics work. ETA PRIME’s results from Beelink’s earlier HX 370 machine with faster soldered memory were almost 11 percent higher in Time Spy despite the lower GPU clock. Robtech tried raising the memory to 6,000 MT/s in the BIOS; it booted but scored worse in 3DMark, and 6,400 MT/s crashed. The default graphics memory allocation is 4GB, which both Robtech and Tom’s Hardware saw, and it can be raised in the BIOS or AMD’s driver software.

Beelink cools the chip with what it calls MSC 2.0, a vapor chamber with a single fan that draws air in through a dust filter on the bottom and exhausts it out the back. Robtech measured 8W at idle, the same as the SER9, and found the BIOS performance mode drew up to 17W more for little benefit. Storage runs through two M.2 2280 PCIe 4.0 x4 slots under a shared heatsink, each taking up to 4TB. Getting inside means prying off four glued rubber feet to reach the screws, then removing the base plate and a two-screw dust screen.

Reviewer Insights

Tom’s Hardware

Sayem Ahmed at Tom’s Hardware tested the red OpenClaw edition with 64GB of RAM and two 1TB drives, one holding Windows 11 Pro and the other Ubuntu. Its productivity results landed mid-pack among the mini PCs the outlet has tested, and it placed second in the multi-threaded results. He wrote, “In everyday use, I was not wanting for any more power than what was already on offer here,” and said the fan reached full speed only once, during a synthetic workload. In games, Cyberpunk 2077 averaged 51 FPS on its Steam Deck preset at 1080p and 30 FPS on High with no upscaling, Shadow of the Tomb Raider averaged 52 FPS, and Hollow Knight: Silksong reached about 100 FPS at 4K.

The preinstalled 9-billion-parameter Qwen model ran at 11.4 tokens per second, and Tom’s Hardware traced the limit to the HX 470’s 89.6 GB/s memory bandwidth. The verdict called the SER10 MAX “a solid entrant into the mini PC Space” with dual boot out of the box, and said “the reality of the ‘OpenClaw’ edition system highlights the limitations of the silicon within.” Dual booting also means switching boot drives in the BIOS, and Ubuntu did not recognize the network chip until Windows had been set up first. The Windows install shipped free of bloatware.

ETA PRIME

ETA PRIME tested a 32GB unit with 12GB set aside for graphics. Red Dead Redemption 2 at 1080p medium with FSR Quality averaged in the mid-60s, Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart averaged about 82 FPS at 1080p medium, and Spider-Man 2 still dipped under 60 FPS with frame generation on. He called it “a really quiet and cool machine” at the stock power limit. His reservation was the memory: “Really do wish we had LPDDR5X because right now, upgrading the RAM on this is still going to cost a lot.”

Robtech

Robtech ran the SER10 MAX against the SER9 in both BIOS power modes. He found it quieter than the SER9 and warmer as a result, saying “Beelink has chosen to make this one even quieter than the Ser 9, which increases the temp.” The HX 470 was the fastest AMD chip on his Geekbench multi-core chart, but gains over the HX 370 stayed in the low single digits, and the bundled Crucial PCIe 4.0 SSD did not reach the middle of his storage chart. He summed up the performance mode as “Up to 17 W extra for little performance gain. Very inefficient.” His other complaints were the large 19V power brick in place of a compact GaN adapter, the Wi-Fi 6 radio, the lack of a VESA mount, and the glued rubber feet. He installed the latest Ubuntu without problems and noted the switch to a three-year warranty.

Who should buy it

The SER10 MAX fits someone who wants a small, quiet desktop for office work, code, and light video editing, with 10GbE for a NAS and memory that can grow later. It plays indie, esports, and older games well; Red Dead Redemption 2 averaged in the mid-60s at 1080p medium with FSR in ETA PRIME’s testing. Newer releases struggle. Robtech called Doom: The Dark Ages “unplayable for such a fast-paced title” at 1080p low, and Spider-Man 2 dipped under 60 FPS even with frame generation. The OpenClaw edition adds an Ubuntu install set up for local agents, and at 11.4 tokens per second from its 9-billion-parameter model it suits small models and agent experiments.

Skip it if you already own a SER9, because the CPU and graphics gains are small, or if graphics speed matters more than upgradeable memory, since soldered LPDDR5X runs the same Radeon 890M faster. For larger local AI models, the Beelink GTR9 Pro and its Ryzen AI Max+ 395 offer far more memory bandwidth. The GEEKOM A9 Max and MINISFORUM AI X1 Pro-470 use the same HX 470 chip. To line them up against other models, use Starry Hope’s Mini PC Comparison Chart.

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