AMD's Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 "Strix Halo" Mini PC breaks the cover, revealing great specs and lots of AI capabilities with this powerful APU.
AMD Strix Halo APUs Are Coming To Mini PCs Soon, First ES Configuration Tested With Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 Offering Great AI Capabilities and Gaming Performance
The Mini PC tested is the AXB35-02 from Chinese manufacturer, SIXUNITED. This PC configuration features the AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 APU, which is the top Strix Halo chip. The chip itself is an ES (Engineering Sample) and has some BIOS issues currently, such as dropping to 10W directly from 140W while the Radeon 8060S iGPU clocks at around 2100 MHz, which is much lower than its 2900 MHz official frequency. Despite that, the gaming and AI performance looked great, but before that, let's talk about the Mini PC itself and its internals.
The Mini PC features a range of IO ports including three USB Type-A ports, a single USB Type-C port rated at 10 Gbps speeds, 1x HDMI, 1xDP, a 2.5 GbE Ethernet port, a headphone jack, and a DC-In port. The PC also features a standard power input, and it is likely both of these are included due to this Mini PC being an early test build. There are also large vents on the back with the 350-watt power supply included in the chassis itself. The front features two Type-A and a single Type-C USB port, an SD card reader & a headphone jack.
The main board of this Mini PC comes with dual M.2 SSD slots on the back and a large air fan duct that pushes air out of the chassis. There are an additional two fans on the front which sit right on top of the main heatsink that covers the front of the motherboard and the APU.
Internally, we can see that the AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 is attached to a baseplate with three copper heat pipes leading into a larger heatsink with several aluminum fins. The motherboard features at least 23 power phases & the Strix Halo APU is surrounded by 8 DRAM modules. With the internals and externals done, let's talk about the performance numbers achieved with this sample.
Memory features 128 GB of LPDDR5 running at 8000 MT/s speeds and the overall bandwidth figures are very strong within the AIDA64 Cache & memory benchmark.
Starting with CPU-z, the AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 "Strix Halo" APU achieved 808.8 points in the single-core and 15526.6 points in the multi-core tests. The CPU was running at a base clock of 2.9GHz and a boost clock of up to 5.1GHz. The Ryzen 9 9950X scores 874 points in single and 17,057 points in the multi-core tests, but that's a 170W+ TDP part. This is still a very good score despite the BIOS bug mentioned above.
CPU-z (Higher is Better)
Another interesting feature of AMD Ryzen AI systems is that they can enable variable memory for graphics, allowing the iGPU to utilize the system memory. Here, the iGPU can utilize the full 128GB pool, which is perfect for running LLMs such as Deepseek 70B Q8, which runs comfortably on this machine.
In terms of power consumption, the AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 consumed 140W on the CPU package with a peak clock speed of 3.2 GHz when all cores were loaded in the AIDA64 stress test. The CPU package hit 81C at peak load, but once again, these are not final figures as this is an ES chip with a clock/power disparity versus the retail offering.
Gaming performance on AMD's Strix Halo APUs is also strong with the Radeon 8060S (mislabeled as Radeon 8050S) and its 40 compute units. The chip was tested in various games and scored over 200 FPS in eSports titles, while AAA games such as Cyberpunk 2077 can push over 100 FPS thanks to FSR3 & Frame-Gen technologies.
We already saw the same chip tested in 3DMark Time Spy, and it scored performance on par with some mainstream discrete offerings. The iGPU achieved a max clock of 2.2-2.3 GHz, which is lower than its 2.9 GHz peak clock, so we can expect better numbers in the final silicon.
3DMark Time Spy (Higher is Better)
So looking at AMD's Strix Halo, APUs like the Ryzen AI MAX+ 395, and the rest of the lineup, there is going to be some amazing hardware for mobile workstations and enthusiast configurations. We are expecting to see the first designs roll out in the market in Q2 2025 with a range of Mini PCs & laptop offerings.
AMD Ryzen AI MAX 300 "Strix Halo" APU Lineup:
| SKU Name | Architectures | CPU Cores | Max Clock | Cache | GPU Cores | TDP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ryzen AI Max+ 395 | Zen 5 / RDNA 3.5 | 16 / 32 | 5.1 GHz | 80 MB | 40 CUs (Radeon 8060S) | 45-120W |
| Ryzen AI Max+ 392 | Zen 5 / RDNA 3.5 | 12 / 24 | 5.0 GHz | 76 MB | 40 CUs (Radeon 8060S) | 45-120W |
| Ryzen AI Max 390 | Zen 5 / RDNA 3.5 | 12 / 24 | 5.0 GHz | 76 MB | 32 CUs (Radeon 8050S) | 45-120W |
| Ryzen AI Max 385 | Zen 5 / RDNA 3.5 | 8 / 16 | 5.0 GHz | 40 MB | 32 CUs (Radeon 8050S) | 45-120W |
| Ryzen AI Max+ 388 | Zen 5 / RDNA 3.5 | 8 / 16 | 5.0 GHz | 40 MB | 40 CUs (Radeon 8060S) | 45-120W |
| Ryzen AI Max 380 | Zen 5 / RDNA 3.5 | 6 / 12 | 4.9 GHz | 22 MB | 16 CUs (Radeon 8040S) | 45-120W |
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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