AMD Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 VEK385 vs Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling)

FPGA / Versal coverage note: 1,243 rows come from the AMD Vitis AI 3.0/3.5 Model Zoo tables; 733 (59%) are image classification. Detection, segmentation and other workloads are thinner, and there is no LLM or speech data for these boards. All are vendor-published (grade D). FPGA / Versal overview.

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No like-for-like comparison yet: both have published results, but model size or batch differ. Treat the numbers below as indicative only.

	AMD Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 VEK385	Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling)
Best object detection	93.50 FPS D 2026-09-24 (published)	n/a
Power	n/a	n/a
Perf / W	n/a	n/a
Price	$15995 list	n/a
Workloads with data	2 of 7	1 of 7

Best published object detection result per platform. n/a = not published; never estimated.

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object detection

Only AMD Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 VEK385 has published object detection results.

Platform	Result	Model · precision · stack	Grade	Power	Source
AMD Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 VEK385	93.50 FPS throughput · b=1	yolov8m VINT8 with BF16 tail (Quark) · Vitis AI 6.3 VART ml_vart --benchmark --runs 100 · medium (YOLO-m)	D	unknown power not published not published	AMD Vitis AI 6.3 VEK385 YOLOv8m tutorial 2026-09-24 (published)

Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling):

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No published object detection results for Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling) or AMD Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 VEK385 yet.
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instance segmentation

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No published instance segmentation results for AMD Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 VEK385 or Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling) yet.
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pose estimation

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No published pose estimation results for AMD Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 VEK385 or Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling) yet.
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image classification

Only AMD Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 VEK385 has published image classification results.

Platform	Result	Model · precision · stack	Grade	Power	Source
AMD Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 VEK385	265 FPS throughput · b=1	resnet50-v1-12 (ONNX) INT8 (Quark) · Vitis AI 6.3 ONNX Runtime Vitis AI EP (evaluate.py, Python loop) · mid-size CNN	D	unknown power not published not published	AMD Vitis AI 6.3 VEK385 ResNet50 Quark tutorial 2026-09-23 (page last edited)

Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling):

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No published image classification results for Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling) or AMD Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 VEK385 yet.
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semantic segmentation

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No published semantic segmentation results for AMD Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 VEK385 or Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling) yet.
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speech-to-text

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No published speech-to-text results for AMD Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 VEK385 or Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling) yet.
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LLM generation

Only Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling) has published LLM generation results.

Platform	Result	Model · precision · stack	Grade	Power	Source
Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling)	34.52 tok/s generation_throughput · b=1	llama3.1:8b Ollama default tag (4-bit unless tag says otherwise) · Ollama (geerlingguy/ollama-benchmark) · LLM 5–14B	C	unknown power not published not published	Jeff Geerling ai-benchmarks issue results (comments) 2025-11-10 (page last edited)

AMD Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 VEK385:

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No published LLM generation results for AMD Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 VEK385 or Minisforum MS-R1 (as tested by Jeff Geerling) yet.
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