Minisforum N5 Pro (HX PRO 370 NAS)
Identifier: AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 370 on Minisforum N5 Pro 5-bay AI NAS Form factor: 5-bay desktop NAS / SFF mini-PC running Proxmox with GPU passthrough Status: active
A Minisforum N5 Pro — a 5-bay desktop NAS chassis built around the commercial AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 370 (the Zen 5 mobile SoC’s PRO variant; the consumer HX 370 lives in the ProArt P16 and ProArt PX13). 12 cores / 24 threads, soldered, with a 10 GbE port, a 5 GbE port, and 1×M.2 + 2×U.2/M.2 storage slots. Used as a Proxmox host with the RTX 2000E Ada passed through to a VM.
Build & Cost
| Component | Spec | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| System | Minisforum N5 Pro 5-bay NAS (chassis + board + CPU + 128 GB SSD) | $1,019.00 (2025) |
| CPU | AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 370 (Zen 5, 12c/24t) | included |
| RAM | Crucial 96 GB (2×48) DDR5-5600 SODIMM (CT2K48G56C46S5) — shared kit, see note | $224.99 (2024) |
| Networking | 1× 10 GbE + 1× 5 GbE | included |
| GPU | NVIDIA RTX 2000E Ada Generation 16 GB | $749.99 (2025) |
| Total invested | $1,993.98 |
Shared RAM kit: the same physical Crucial 96 GB SODIMM kit is also used in the Minisforum BD790i. The $224.99 cost is counted once on both rig pages because the kit moves between machines as you swap.
Geekbench AI Runs
| Date | Backend | Component | Single | Half | Quant | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-15 | ONNX / DirectML | RTX 2000E Ada | 12,762 | 21,743 | 10,288 | 361949 |
AI Capability
- Best Single / Half / Quant: 12,762 / 21,743 / 10,288
- ACI: 299.0 — Tier C
- **GPU 2.51 (RTX 2000E Ada cost only, $749.99)
- **System 5.92 (chassis + GPU, $1,768.99 / 299.0 × 100)
A workstation-class entry GPU on a low-power NAS chassis. The RTX 2000E Ada is interesting precisely because it’s a 70W single-slot card with 16 GB VRAM — uniquely suited to a small Proxmox box where power, thermal, and slot height matter more than raw throughput. The N5 Pro’s 5-bay storage and 10 GbE networking make this a hybrid AI/storage host rather than a pure compute box.
Notes
- RAM — the 224.99, 2024) is shared physically with the BD790i and swaps between the two machines.
- Only one test run — consider running a CPU-only baseline and re-running the GPU benchmark for variance check.
- Form factor advantage: the N5 Pro is the only NAS in the collection that’s also a Proxmox AI host — useful pattern for low-power AI inference colocated with bulk storage.
See Also
- Benchmark Methodology
- Proxmox: Ultra 7 265K
- Proxmox: Lenovo P8 Threadripper
- ASUS ProArt P16 — same CPU family (consumer HX 370)
- ASUS ProArt PX13 — same CPU family