When you think of a gaming PC, you likely picture a massive tower cabinet with tons of RGB. But ASUS is bringing high-end power, without taking up your entire desk space. The new ROG GR70 is a gaming mini PCthat squeezed some seriously capable AMD and Nvidia components into a chassis that occupies less than three liters
The ROG GR70 was originally announced a couple of months ago and later appeared at CES 2026. It is finally available to purchase in the US. It joins the recently unveiled ROG NUC 16 that packs the top-end Intel processor, and its pricing is almost as painful
High-end hardware in a three-liter box
Two configurations are currently available. The more expensive version combines AMD’s Ryzen 9 9955HX3Dprocessor with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop GPU, 32GB of DDR5 memory, and a 2TB SSD. All of this brings a price tag of around of $3,196.33. Meanwhile, the slightly cheaper $3,135.19 configuration swaps the X3D chip for the standard Ryzen 9 9955HX while retaining the RTX 5070, 32GB of memory, and 2TB of storage
Asus also lists Ryzen 9 8940HX and RTX 5060 options for the GR70, although those configurations do not appear to be part of the initial US availability. The Ryzen 9 9955HX3D is a 16-core, 32-thread Zen 5 processor featuring AMD’s second-generation 3D V-Cache technology. Meanwhile, the RTX 5070 Laptop GPU supports Nvidia’s Blackwell features, including DLSS 4 and Multi Frame Generation. But considering you’re paying north of $3,000, the laptop GPU does seem a little disappointing
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While RAM prices are soaring due to the shortages, ASUS lets users expand memory by up to 96GB using two DDR5 SO-DIMM slots, while the chassis provides space for two M.2 SSDs
Its size comes at a serious cost
Connectivity is impressively generous. The GR70 includes six USB-A ports, a front USB-C connection, USB4, two HDMI 2.1 ports, two DisplayPort 2.1 connections, 2.5Gb Ethernet, Wi-Fi 7, and Bluetooth 5.4. Asus says it can drive as many as five 4K displays. A triple-fan QuietFlow cooling system handles the thermals inside the compact chassis
Even with those specifications, the current pricing is difficult to ignore. Buyers are paying a substantial premium for a clean, compact machine rather than receiving a desktop RTX 5070. The ROG GR70 may be one of the mightiest gaming PCs of its size, but more than $3,000 buys an awful lot of gaming desktops elsewhere
