Sapphire Edge-HD3 AMD Brazos-Powered SFF Desktop Visits FCC’s Offices

Sapphire is getting ready to launch a new mini-PC in the company Edge-HD series which will swap the traditional Intel Atom and Nvidia ION graphics combo used in the previous versions of these systems for an AMD Brazos APU.

The new Edge HD model was showcased during the recent CES fair and back then Sapphire promised that the SFF desktop would reach retail this February.

While we have our doubts that Sapphire will actually manage to achieve this, the Edge-HD3 was recently spotted in FCC’s offices by Liliputing, so its US release should get near sporting an E-450 APU.

This is the fastest Brazos chip available so far and it sports dual Bobcat x86 processing cores clocked at 1.65GHz and Radeon HD 6320 integrated graphics, featuring some impressive multimedia capabilities.

What this means is that the little 18W chip installed in the Edge HD3 is fully capable of decoding Blu-ray video, as well as other Full HD movie formats, no matter the bitrate used for their encoding.

These can be stored on the included 500GB hard disk drive, which is housed inside the case together with 4GB of DDR3 system memory.

As far as the available connectors are concerned, the system features two USB 2.0 ports, an audio-in and one line-out jack, an Ethernet port, as well as VGA and HDMI video outputs. 

The Fusion-powered Edge-HD3 was also designed to provide users with USB 3.0 connectivity. 

Built-in WiFi rounds up the features list, while the power consumption of the Sapphire nettop is estimated at a low 30 Watts.

The current EDGE HD2 nettop is powered by a dual-core Intel Atom D525 processor which runs at 1.8GHz, has 2GB of system memory, a 250GB hard drive and Nvidia second-generation ION graphics.

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