Beelink SER9 Pro (Mini PC) vs UM890 Pro (Mini PC)

Both are mini PCs built around AMD's Radeon 780M integrated graphics, and graphics is what sim software leans on. The Beelink SER9 Pro is $639 with a Ryzen 7 255, 24GB of RAM and a 500GB drive; the Minisforum UM890 Pro is $989 with a Ryzen 9 8945HS, 32GB and 1TB. Both are sold on Amazon.

Whatever you run at 1080p, the two behave the same, because the same graphics chip is doing the work, and that chip sets the limits for both. Awesome Golf lists integrated graphics as its minimum, so it runs at spec. SkyTrak's PC app and E6 Connect name discrete cards as their minimums (a GTX 1650 and a GTX 1070), so on either machine they run below spec with settings turned down. Foresight Premier lists an RTX 4060 and Trackman Performance Studio supports no AMD hardware, which rules both machines out for those. The UM890 Pro's money goes to headroom: a faster processor, more memory for several programs open at once, recording, or a second display, and twice the storage for course files.

Neither is the machine for GSPro, E6 Connect or SkyTrak's Windows app. All three publish discrete-GPU minimums that the 780M sits below, and both of these run them only on reduced settings. For those we recommend a PC clearly above the line: the Skytech Ryzen 7 5700 with an RTX 5060, about $1,200 from Amazon.com. For SkyTrak on a Mac, the $779.99 Mac mini M6 runs SkyTrak's app well past its M1 minimum. For Foresight Premier, Uneekor or Trackman, the Skytech King 95 with an RTX 5070 Ti, about $2,400.