AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ 495 “Gorgon Halo” Leak Smokes Strix Halo by 10%, Packs 192GB Memory and Radeon 8065S

AMD's next-generation Halo flagship, the Ryzen AI MAX+ 495, has leaked out, featuring a 10% bump in performance & a new Radeon 8065 iGPU.

AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ 495 Is The Flagship Gorgon Halo APU, Rocks 16 "Zen 5" Cores & Radeon 8065S GPU

Earlier this year, we reported that AMD was working on a new Halo family called Ryzen AI MAX 400, and codenamed Gorgon Halo. Just like Strix Point to Strix Halo, Gorgon Halo will offer similar architectures as Gorgon Point "Ryzen AI 400" SoCs, but elevate the configurations with more cores, beefier GPU, and lots of memory in a chiplet design.

The flagship chip has now leaked out at PassMark, the AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ 495. The chip in particular is the PRO variant, but it should retain the same specifications as the standard Non-Pro offerings. In terms of cores, the APU will feature 16 "Zen 5" processor cores with 32 threads. These will operate at slightly better clock speeds while retaining the same 16 MB L2 and 64 MB L3 cache.

For graphics, the AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ 495 will feature the Radeon 8065S GPU, which seems to be a slightly faster variant of the Radeon 8060S with higher clock speeds, though we don't expect a higher core count.

The chip was spotted on a platform with 192 GB of memory, much higher than the 128 GB memory that Strix Halo currently supports. This will be fantastic for running large LLMs, as based on the current VRAM allocation, that's 168 GB of memory that could be allocated to the GPU (87.5%). There's also 2 TB of SSD on the tested laptop alongside a 120Hz (2560x1600) display.

In terms of performance, the APU scored 4293 points in the single-core and 57,525 points in the multi-core tests, which is a 10% improvement over the Ryzen AI MAX+ PRO 395 in multi-threaded and 5% improvement in single-threaded benchmarks.

The GPU scored 1232 points in 2D and 18,427 points in 3D benchmark runs. The GPU score seems to be on par with the existing Radeon 8060S, so it is likely that we are also looking at the same configuration with 40 compute units based on the RDNA 3.5 GPU architecture.

AMD's Ryzen AI MAX 400 "Gorgon Halo" lineup is expected to launch either later this year or early next year since Strix Halo recently got two new additions. The standard Ryzen AI 400 "Gorgon" laptop SoCs are already out in the markets, so we can expect more information about the Halo lineup at Computex 2026.

AMD Ryzen AI MAX 400 "Gorgon Halo" APU Lineup:

SKU Name	Architectures	CPU Cores	Max Clock	Cache	GPU Cores	TDP
Ryzen AI Max+ 495	Zen 5 / RDNA 3.5	16 / 32	5.2 GHz	80 MB	40 CUs (Radeon 8065S)	45-120W
Ryzen AI Max 490	Zen 5 / RDNA 3.5	12 / 24	5.0 GHz	76 MB	32 CUs (Radeon 8050S)	45-120W
Ryzen AI Max 485	Zen 5 / RDNA 3.5	8 / 16	5.0 GHz	40 MB	32 CUs (Radeon 8050S)	45-120W

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