AMD's powerful Ryzen AI Halo Mini PC is reportedly launching in June and features the top Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 SoC.
AMD's Powerful & Compact "Ryzen AI Halo" Mini PC Is Expected To Launch Next Month
AMD recently hosted its AI Dev Day in San Francisco, where it once again showcased the Ryzen AI Halo Mini PC. A Reddit user, 1ncehost, has posted pictures from the event where Jack Hyuh was holding in the Mini PC, and based on the information, AMD is expected to launch the Mini PC in June, which is next month. The company didn't state any pricing information, but the Halo will come pre-configured with the top-end Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 SoC.
The AMD Ryzen AI MAX CPU family, codenamed Strix Halo, has seen some major adoption in the past few months, from laptops to handhelds and Mini PCs; it's entering every consumer PC segment. These high-performance and premium SoCs offer amazing performance thanks to their Zen 5 CPU, RDNA 3.5 GPU, and XDNA 2 NPU architectures. The Ryzen AI Halo combines these SoCs in a small form factor for developers and SFF AI users.
On paper, the AMD Ryzen AI Halo is designed as an AI Developer Platform, similar to NVIDIA's DGX Spark, which is designed to accelerate AI development and AI workflows.
The Ryzen AI Halo Mini PC will feature full AMD ROCm Support, including the newly released ROCm 7.2.2 suite, will be optimized for Dev-Ready applications such as LM Studio, ComfyUI, VS Code, and More, will enable optimizations for several models, including GPT-OSS, FLUX.2, SDXL, and More, and finally, it will carry Day 0 support for leading AI models.
Looking at the internals of the box itself, the Ryzen AI Halo Mini PC will come in a very compact form factor, utilizing the full range of Ryzen AI MAX SoCs with up to 16 cores, 40 compute units, up to 128 GB LPDDR5X-8533 memory, and will house a dual-fan cooling solution, along with big storage capacities.
Currently, the GMKtec EVO-X2 with the Ryzen AI MAX+ 395, 96 GB LPDDR5X memory, and 2 TB storage costs around $2300-$2400 at Amazon. For comparison, the NVIDIA DGX Spark, which saw a price bump recently, retails for $4699 for the 128 GB LPDDR5X configuration. We expect the Ryzen AI Halo Mini PC to cost somewhere between the $2000-$3000 US price range. Furthermore, the Mini PC comes with a nice LED accent bar, which is fully programmable.
News Source: Videocardz
About the author: A Software Engineer by training and a PC enthusiast by passion, Hassan Mujtaba serves as Wccftech's Senior Editor for hardware section. With years of experience in the industry, he specializes in deep-dive technical analysis of next-generation CPU and GPU architectures, motherboards, and cooling solutions. His work involves not only breaking news on upcoming technologies but also extensive hands-on reviews and benchmarking.
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