UGREEN iDX6011 Pro vs Minisforum N5 Pro
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Which should you buy?
Buy the Minisforum N5 Pro if you want the most memory headroom for local models: it takes up to 96GB of ECC DDR5, has a 50 TOPS NPU and costs far less. Buy the UGREEN iDX6011 Pro if you want a finished product with UGREEN's own local assistant, six bays and two 10GbE ports, and 64GB is enough for you.
What is the difference between the iDX6011 Pro and the N5 Pro?
These two are the most AI-focused desktop NAS systems we track, and they take opposite approaches. The iDX6011 Pro is an appliance: a Core Ultra 7 255H with Arc 140T graphics and a 13 TOPS NPU, 64GB of LPDDR5X soldered to the board, six bays, two 10GbE ports, an internal PCIe Gen4 x8 slot plus OCuLink, and UGREEN's Uliya assistant running locally out of the box.
The N5 Pro is closer to a mini PC with drive bays. Its Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 370 has 12 cores, Radeon 890M graphics and a 50 TOPS NPU, and it uses ordinary DDR5 SO-DIMMs with ECC support up to 96GB. You can buy it barebone and fit your own memory.
For language models, memory decides more than anything else. At 96GB the N5 Pro holds 70B class models at 4-bit with room for context (Estimated); the iDX6011 Pro's fixed 64GB makes 70B a squeeze. Both offer a GPU path, and neither NPU speeds up Ollama today.
Where the UGREEN wins is everything around the model: polished software, six bays against five, dual 10GbE against 10GbE plus 5GbE, a three-year warranty against two, and no assembly.
Choose the UGREEN iDX6011 Pro if
You want local AI that works the day you plug it in, with UGREEN's assistant, semantic file search and photo AI already set up. Six bays and two 10GbE ports matter to you because the box will also be your main file server, and you value a three-year warranty and UK support. You are happy with 32B class models and do not plan to run 70B models regularly.
Choose the Minisforum N5 Pro if
You care most about memory per pound and want the option to run 70B class models at 4-bit (Estimated) by fitting 96GB yourself. You are comfortable installing memory, may run TrueNAS or another OS instead of MinisCloud, and like having both OCuLink and a PCIe slot for a future GPU. Five bays are enough for your storage.
How do the specifications compare?
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Which can run bigger local models?
The Minisforum N5 Pro reaches 96GB of memory against 64GB on the UGREEN iDX6011 Pro. That is the difference between 70B class models at 4-bit with room left for longer context and 32B class models comfortably, and 70B class models at 4-bit with little headroom (Estimated). The largest 4-bit model each can hold is roughly 146B and 93B parameters, after leaving 8GB for the operating system.
For GPU acceleration, the UGREEN iDX6011 Pro offers pcie x8 slot, while the Minisforum N5 Pro offers oculink (external gpu). A discrete card with its own memory is the biggest single speed upgrade for local models, so this matters more than CPU cores for anyone planning to run 14B models or larger.
The UGREEN iDX6011 Pro has a 13 TOPS NPU; The Minisforum N5 Pro has a 50 TOPS NPU. NAS NPUs help vendor features such as photo recognition and search, but most open-source LLM runtimes do not use them yet.
What do they cost in the UK right now?
Live Amazon UK prices, each with the time it was last verified. Where a system has no verified Amazon UK offer, its Amazon US price is shown in dollars and marked.
| System | Price | Stock | Buy |
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 | $5,999.99 Amazon US · Verified Ships from the US; delivery and import charges shown at checkout | In stock | View Deal |
 | £1,040.41 Amazon UK · Verified | In stock | View Deal |
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iDX6011 Pro vs N5 Pro questions
Which is better for local LLMs, the iDX6011 Pro or the N5 Pro?
The Minisforum N5 Pro scores higher on the AINAS Local LLM profile (79 against 69), which weights memory and GPU options most heavily.
Which has faster networking?
The UGREEN iDX6011 Pro has 2 x 10GbE as its fastest port and the Minisforum N5 Pro has 10GbE.
Which has more storage?
The UGREEN iDX6011 Pro has 6 drive bays and 2 M.2 slots; the Minisforum N5 Pro has 5 bays and 3 M.2 slots.
How long is the warranty on each?
3 years on the UGREEN iDX6011 Pro and 2 years on the Minisforum N5 Pro, according to the manufacturers.
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