Beelink SER5 Pro Mini PC

The Beelink SER5 Pro Mini PC runs an AMD Ryzen 7 5700U, an eight-core, 16-thread chip, inside a case under five inches on a side. The build covered here pairs it with 16GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD, and Windows 11 Pro is licensed and installed at the factory. Integrated AMD Radeon graphics cover desktop work and light gaming. VESA mounting hardware ships in the box, so it can hang behind a monitor on a cramped desk or drive a signage display.

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Beelink SER5 Pro Mini PC Comparison Chart

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Version	16GB/500GB/Ryzen 7 5700U	16GB/1TB/Ryzen 7 5700U	32GB/1TB/Ryzen 7 5700U	32GB/500GB/Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U	32GB/1TB/Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U	16GB/512GB/Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U	16GB/500GB/Ryzen 7 5825U
Performance Rating	4.2	4.2	4.6	4.7	4.7	4.3	4.4
Operating System	Windows 11 Pro	Windows 11 Pro	Windows 11 Pro	Windows 11 Pro	Windows 11 Pro	Windows 11 Pro	Windows 11 Pro
Processor	Octa-core 1.80 Ghz (max 4.30 Ghz) AMD Ryzen 7 5700U	Octa-core 1.80 Ghz (max 4.30 Ghz) AMD Ryzen 7 5700U	Octa-core 1.80 Ghz (max 4.30 Ghz) AMD Ryzen 7 5700U	Octa-core 1.90 Ghz (max 4.40 Ghz) AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U	Octa-core 1.90 Ghz (max 4.40 Ghz) AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U	Octa-core 1.90 Ghz (max 4.40 Ghz) AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U	Octa-core 2.00 Ghz (max 4.50 Ghz) AMD Ryzen 7 5825U
GPU	Integrated AMD Radeon Graphics	Integrated AMD Radeon Graphics	Integrated AMD Radeon Graphics	Integrated AMD Radeon Graphics	Integrated AMD Radeon Graphics	Integrated AMD Radeon Graphics	Integrated AMD Radeon Graphics
RAM	16 GB	16 GB	32 GB	32 GB	32 GB	16 GB	16 GB
Internal Storage	512 GB	1 TB	1 TB	512 GB	1 TB	512 GB	500 GB
Dimensions width x length x thickness	4.96 x 4.44 x 1.65 inches (125.98 x 112.78 x 41.91 mm)	4.96 x 4.44 x 1.65 inches (125.98 x 112.78 x 41.91 mm)	4.96 x 4.44 x 1.65 inches (125.98 x 112.78 x 41.91 mm)	4.96 x 4.44 x 1.65 inches (125.98 x 112.78 x 41.91 mm)	4.96 x 4.44 x 1.65 inches (125.98 x 112.78 x 41.91 mm)	4.96 x 4.44 x 1.65 inches (125.98 x 112.78 x 41.91 mm)	4.96 x 4.44 x 1.65 inches (125.98 x 112.78 x 41.91 mm)
Weight	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown
WiFi	Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax)	Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax)	Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax)	Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax)	Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax)	Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax)	Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax)
Bluetooth	Bluetooth 5.2	Bluetooth 5.2	Bluetooth 5.2	Bluetooth 5.2	Bluetooth 5.2	Bluetooth 5.2	Bluetooth 5.2
Ethernet	1 Ethernet port at 1 Gbps	1 Ethernet port at 1 Gbps	1 Ethernet port at 1 Gbps	1 Ethernet port at 1 Gbps	1 Ethernet port at 1 Gbps	1 Ethernet port at 1 Gbps	1 Ethernet port at 1 Gbps
HDMI	1 Full-Size HDMI Port	1 Full-Size HDMI Port	1 Full-Size HDMI Port	1 Full-Size HDMI Port	1 Full-Size HDMI Port	1 Full-Size HDMI Port	1 Full-Size HDMI Port
DisplayPort	1 DisplayPort	1 DisplayPort	1 DisplayPort	1 DisplayPort	1 DisplayPort	1 DisplayPort	1 DisplayPort
VGA	No VGA Ports	No VGA Ports	No VGA Ports	No VGA Ports	No VGA Ports	No VGA Ports	No VGA Ports
USB Ports	1 USB 2.0, 3 USB 3, 1 USB-C (DisplayPort over USB-C)	1 USB 2.0, 3 USB 3, 1 USB-C (DisplayPort over USB-C)	1 USB 2.0, 3 USB 3, 1 USB-C (DisplayPort over USB-C)	1 USB 2.0, 3 USB 3, 1 USB-C (DisplayPort over USB-C)	1 USB 2.0, 3 USB 3, 1 USB-C (DisplayPort over USB-C)	1 USB 2.0, 3 USB 3, 1 USB-C (DisplayPort over USB-C)	1 USB 2.0, 3 USB 3, 1 USB-C (DisplayPort over USB-C)
Thunderbolt Ports	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
OCuLink	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Internal SATA Ports	1 SATA port, includes 2.5" drive bay (Supports up to 2TB external 2.5-inch 7mm HDD expansion)	1 SATA port, includes 2.5" drive bay (Supports up to 2TB external 2.5-inch 7mm HDD expansion)	1 SATA port, includes 2.5" drive bay (Supports up to 2TB external 2.5-inch 7mm HDD expansion)	1 SATA port, includes 2.5" drive bay (Supports up to 2TB external 2.5-inch 7mm HDD expansion)	1 SATA port, includes 2.5" drive bay (Supports up to 2TB external 2.5-inch 7mm HDD expansion)	1 SATA port, includes 2.5" drive bay (Supports up to 2TB external 2.5-inch 7mm HDD expansion)	1 SATA port, includes 2.5" drive bay (Supports up to 2TB external 2.5-inch 7mm HDD expansion)
Card Reader	No Card Reader	No Card Reader	No Card Reader	No Card Reader	No Card Reader	No Card Reader	No Card Reader
Headphone Jack	combo	combo	combo	combo	combo	combo	combo
Fanless	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
VESA Mount	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
In the Box	SER5 Pro 5700U Mini PC, Power Adapter, User Manual, VESA Mount with Screws, 2x HDMI Cable	SER5 Pro 5700U Mini PC, Power Adapter, User Manual, VESA Mount with Screws, 2x HDMI Cable	SER5 Pro 5700U Mini PC, Power Adapter, User Manual, VESA Mount with Screws, 2x HDMI Cable	SER5 Pro 5700U Mini PC, Power Adapter, User Manual, VESA Mount with Screws, 2x HDMI Cable	SER5 Pro 5700U Mini PC, Power Adapter, User Manual, VESA Mount with Screws, 2x HDMI Cable	SER5 Pro 5700U Mini PC, Power Adapter, User Manual, VESA Mount with Screws, 2x HDMI Cable	SER5 Pro 5700U Mini PC, Power Adapter, User Manual, VESA Mount with Screws, 2x HDMI Cable
Expandability	RAM upgradeable to 64GB, storage expandable with 2TB M.2 NVMe SSD and 2TB 2.5-inch HDD	RAM upgradeable to 64GB, storage expandable with 2TB M.2 NVMe SSD and 2TB 2.5-inch HDD	RAM upgradeable to 64GB, storage expandable with 2TB M.2 NVMe SSD and 2TB 2.5-inch HDD	RAM upgradeable to 64GB, storage expandable with 2TB M.2 NVMe SSD and 2TB 2.5-inch HDD	RAM upgradeable to 64GB, storage expandable with 2TB M.2 NVMe SSD and 2TB 2.5-inch HDD	RAM upgradeable to 64GB, storage expandable with 2TB M.2 NVMe SSD and 2TB 2.5-inch HDD	RAM upgradeable to 64GB, storage expandable with 2TB M.2 NVMe SSD and 2TB 2.5-inch HDD

A 64GB memory ceiling and a second drive bay

The Ryzen 7 5700U runs eight cores and 16 threads from a 1.80GHz base to a 4.30GHz boost, and it handles multitasking and demanding applications. Memory is dual-channel DDR4 in SO-DIMM slots and goes up to 64GB, which leaves headroom well past the 16GB most builds ship with.

Storage is a 500GB or 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD depending on the build, which keeps boot and load times short. Beyond that the machine takes an M.2 NVMe SSD of up to 2TB and a 2TB external 2.5-inch HDD on the SATA port, so files and disk images can stay local instead of on a network share.

Wireless is WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2, with a Gigabit Ethernet port for a wired connection. Peripherals get three USB 3.0 ports, one USB 2.0, and a USB-C port, while HDMI and DisplayPort drive two monitors at once. The case measures 4.96 inches wide, 4.44 inches deep, and 1.65 inches tall, small enough to sit under a shelf or behind a display.

Reviewer Insights

A disambiguation first, because Beelink stamps the SER5 name across several different chips. This page covers the SER5 Pro built on the AMD Ryzen 7 5700U, an eight-core, 16-thread Zen 2 part, along with its later sibling variants on the Ryzen 7 5825U and Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U (both Zen 3). It is a separate machine from the plain SER5 on the Ryzen 5 5560U and from the SER5 MAX on the Ryzen 7 5800H, each of which has its own page. Some listings and videos that carry the “SER5 Pro” badge ship the higher-TDP 5800H instead, so where a reviewer’s test unit differs from the 5700U this page is about, it is flagged below. For 2026 context, the 5700U carries a PassMark multi-thread score of roughly 15,853; the 5825U variant lands near 18,350 and the PRO 5850U near 16,967. The 5800H that EVO Tech points to as the step up scores about 21,131, and current H-series mini PC chips such as the Ryzen 7 7735HS reach roughly 24,264, so the 5700U reads today as a capable but clearly older eight-core part.

EVO Tech: tested on a 16GB/1TB 5700U unit

EVO Tech’s review is the one source built on this page’s exact chip. Beelink ships the SER5 Pro with the CPU’s TDP raised to 35 watts, well above the 5700U’s usual 15-to-25-watt envelope, which he calls “a welcome addition” that “does introduce more system noise.” In Cinebench R23 he found the 5700U’s multi-core result “falls almost identically in line with” the Intel Core i9-9880H and the Ryzen 5 6600H, while the single-core figure shows improvements that are “nothing substantial” and still trail every Zen 3 sibling he tested. Against the 5800H SER5 MAX the multi-core gap is, in his words, large enough that “the difference here is astronomical.”

Conan Exiles managed only about a 30fps average at 1080p, so he dropped to 720p to clear a 60fps average with 1% lows close to 60. Batman: Arkham Knight ran near a 30fps average at lowest settings. The newer and heavier titles fared worse: Assassin’s Creed Mirage with FSR on the performance preset was “very disappointing,” Returnal could not get close to a 30fps average even rendering at roughly 360p, and Guardians of the Galaxy reached only a “tolerable 30 FPS” with occasional stutters. He attributes the ceiling to the integrated Radeon (eight Vega cores, the most Vega ever shipped), calling it “about as good as it gets until you get to rdna,” and warns that Vega now runs on legacy drivers: security updates continue but no new game optimizations. His verdict is measured, “a middle of the road product” that “doesn’t really excel at anything,” summed up as “you won’t be disappointed if you buy this system; I think the only way you’d be disappointed is if you really care about sound.”

EVO Tech: 5560U versus 5700U, head to head

EVO Tech’s companion comparison pits the SER5 Pro 5700U against the Zen 3 Ryzen 5 5560U SER5. With both at lowest settings, Killing Floor 2 saw the 5700U’s 1% lows climb to 52fps (from 37 on the 5560U, a 40.54 percent jump) on top of a 23.73 percent higher average. Rainbow Six Siege with FSR on performance ran at a 102fps average and 86fps 1% lows on the 5700U, against 81 and 69 on the 5560U. Tiny Tina’s Wonderland moved from a 40fps average to 47, Mafia II: Definitive Edition reached a 44fps average (up 33.33 percent), and Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord hit a 49fps average with 1% lows pushed to the 30fps mark. Not every title rewarded the extra cores: Counter-Strike 2 at native resolution gained only 11.67 percent on the average and 4.26 percent on the 1% lows (roughly two frames), and the CPU-bound Grid 2 separated the two systems by single digits while the 5700U’s Radeon 8 coasted in the high 60s to 70s percent utilization where the 5560U’s Radeon 6 pegged near 100 percent. His takeaway: the 5700U “even in its worst case scenarios is still going to have some increase in performance,” with best cases in the 40 percent range, but you trade away “a quieter system that uses less power.”

TechMishka: a “SER5 Pro” review running the 5800H

TechMishka’s review is titled around the SER5 Pro, but host Michael states plainly that the chip in his test unit is “the AMD Ryzen 7 5800H,” the higher-TDP H-series part this site tracks on the SER5 MAX page rather than the 5700U above. His findings therefore describe that hotter sibling, and he gives no synthetic benchmark scores, wattage readings, decibel figures, or temperatures, so there are no measured numbers to carry over; his read is qualitative. Inside, he finds dual SO-DIMM slots reaching 64GB, a removable M.2 drive (a Kingston NV2 with TLC flash in his sample) and a swappable Intel AX200 Wi-Fi card, plus a pre-licensed Windows 11 Pro install. He flags that the front USB-C is a data and DisplayPort connector with no Thunderbolt, so external GPUs are off the table. On the 5800H specifically he came away calling it “very power efficient” even at maximum load, found the Vega 8 graphics comfortable enough to hold a two-hour Counter-Strike session at unchanged detail (with the GPU pinned), and noted the fan is “a bit noisier than expected” under stress. He also points out that the 6800H successor’s 680M graphics are roughly 50 percent faster. His bottom line was a strong sub-$500 desktop replacement, a verdict earned on the 5800H rather than this page’s 5700U.

A 720p esports box that stalls at 1080p

The on-chip EVO Tech data lands the 5700U SER5 Pro as a competent everyday eight-core box and a solid 720p esports gamer (Rainbow Six Siege above 100fps, Killing Floor 2 1% lows in the 50s) that runs out of road on demanding 1080p titles, held back by Zen 2 single-core throughput and a legacy Vega 8 GPU. Beelink’s 35-watt TDP buys multi-thread headroom and costs fan noise. In 2026 terms its roughly 15,853 PassMark sits below the newer 5825U and PRO 5850U variants on this same page, below the 5800H SER5 MAX (about 21,131), and well below current H-series minis, which is why EVO Tech steers most buyers to the quieter Ryzen 5 5560U SER5 for daily use or the SER5 MAX when CPU power is the priority.

Customer Reviews

Amazon buyers rate the Beelink SER5 Pro Mini PC well overall. Brian, a verified buyer, called it “a wondeful liitle PC its very quiet and takes up very little space,” and noted that it can be upgraded with more RAM and another SSD; his one gripe was the USB ports protruding front and back so that it “looks like a porcupine with all the slots load.” A verified buyer posting as Happy Camper ran it as an HTPC and office machine on Linux and described it as “powerful, quiet, and versatile,” while Autobahn97, who runs several of these as office PCs and retail registers, wrote “Love these liiittle PCs!”

Yodamaster, a verified buyer, bought it for tethered Quest PCVR and was disappointed: “unless playing games at 1 FPS is your thing you’re going to be disappointed if you bought it for this purpose,” so treat it as an office, media, and light-gaming box rather than a VR rig. A 1-star verified review from Roatanmania reports a hardware failure after about a year: “Worked far better than I had hoped for a year and then it became a brick.”

An office and media box with an audible fan

Eight cores with 64GB of memory headroom carry office software and browser work with room left for heavier multitasking later. Windows 11 Pro arrives licensed, so a small business can put one on a desk or behind a monitor without buying an operating system separately.

Anyone shopping for current gaming performance hits the Vega ceiling quickly, and anyone who wants a machine they never hear will notice the fan once the 35-watt setting is working.

Beelink sold this chassis with three different Ryzen 7 parts, and the 5825U build is the quickest of them in multi-thread terms, so take that one when a listing offers it at a similar price. The Mini PC Comparison Chart puts the specs next to the rest of the catalog if you want to weigh it against a newer chip.