Minisforum MS-R1
The Minisforum MS-R1 is a mini workstation built on the Cix P1 (sold as CP8180). It boots through UEFI and adds a full-size PCIe x16 slot wired as x8, so it takes a low-profile single-slot GPU or a network card. Two 10 GbE ports and up to 64 GB of LPDDR5 make it popular as an Arm homelab box.
Hardware
Specs
| SoC | Cix CP8180 / P1 |
|---|---|
| CPU | 4× Cortex-A720 @ 2.6 GHz (big) 4× Cortex-A720 @ 2.4 GHz (medium) 4× Cortex-A520 @ 1.8 GHz (LITTLE) |
| Memory | LPDDR5-6400 128-bit Up to 64 GB Configurations: 4 / 8 / 16 / 32 / 64 GB |
| GPU | Arm Immortalis-G720 MC10 Vendor: OpenGL ES 3.2, Vulkan 1.3, OpenCL 3.0 Mesa: OpenGL 3.1, OpenGL ES 3.1, Vulkan 1.4, OpenCL 3.0 (Panfrost, PanVK, Rusticl, Panthor kernel) Hardware ray tracing |
| NPU | Arm-China Zhouyi, 30 TOPS Supports INT4 / INT8 / INT16 / FP16 / TF32 |
| VPU | Arm-China Linlon V8 Decode: 8K@60fps AV1, H.265, H.264, VP9, VP8, H.263, MPEG-4, MPEG-2 Encode: 8K@30fps H.265, H.264, VP9, VP8 |
| SoC page | CD8180 / CD8160 / P1 |
Interfaces
| Board | Minisforum MS-R1 |
|---|---|
| Memory | LPDDR5-5500 128-bit 32 / 64 GB ECC |
| Display | 1× HDMI 2.0, 2× DisplayPort 1.4 via USB-C (up to 4K@120) |
| Storage | M.2 2280/22110 NVMe (PCIe 4.0 x4), Second M.2 2280 NVMe via M.2 E-Key adapter card |
| PCIe | 1× PCIe x16 (x8 electrical): PCIe (fits single-slot low-profile cards) 1× M.2 M-Key 2280/22110: PCIe Gen 4 x4 (NVMe SSD) 1× M.2 E-Key 2230: PCIe (Wi-Fi 6E / Bluetooth 5.3 module) |
| USB | 2× USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C (DisplayPort 1.4 Alt Mode) 2× USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A (rear) 1× USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A (front) 4× USB 2.0 Type-A (2 rear, 2 front) |
| Ethernet | 2× 10 GbE (Realtek RTL8127) |
| Wi-Fi | Wi-Fi 6E (M.2 module) |
| Bluetooth | 5.3 |
| Audio | 3.5 mm combo jack |
| Form factor | Mini PC |
| Firmware | UEFI, Arm SystemReady and PC-BSA v1.0 compliant |
| ECC | Supported, reduces usable memory by one eighth when enabled |
Available OS images
Documentation / Links
- Minisforum MS-R1 product page
- MS-R1 achieves Arm SystemReady & PC-BSA compliance
- Jeff Geerling: Minisforum stuffs an entire Arm Homelab in the MS-R1