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64 GB UNIFIEDworkstation·Reviewed May 2026

AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (Strix Halo)

AMD's first true Strix Halo chip, combining Zen 5 CPU cores, RDNA 3.5 integrated graphics, and a 50-TOPS XDNA 2 NPU on a single die. The headline feature for local AI is **up to 128 GB of unified LPDDR5X-8000 memory** that the GPU tile can address directly — meaningful for 70B-class models that don't fit on any consumer discrete GPU.

Released 2025·~$2300 street
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288/ 1000
DD-tier
Estimated
Throughput
74/ 500
VRAM-fit
190/ 200
Ecosystem
130/ 200
Efficiency
17/ 100

Extrapolated from 256 GB/s bandwidth — 25.6 tok/s estimated. No measured benchmarks yet.

WORKLOAD FIT
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Plain-English: Doesn't fit modern chat models usefully — vision models won't fit.

7B chat✗
Doesn't fit
14B chat✗
Doesn't fit
32B chat✗
Doesn't fit
70B chat✗
Doesn't fit
Coding agent✗
Doesn't fit
Vision (≤8B VLM)✗
Doesn't fit
Long context (32K)✗
Doesn't fit
✓Comfortable — fits with headroom
~Tight — works, no slack
△Marginal — needs aggressive quant
✗Doesn't fit usefully

Verdicts extrapolated from catalog VRAM + bandwidth + ecosystem flags. Hover any chip for the rationale. Want measured numbers? Submit your own run with runlocalai-bench --submit.

BLK · OVERVIEW

Overview

AMD's first true Strix Halo chip, combining Zen 5 CPU cores, RDNA 3.5 integrated graphics, and a 50-TOPS XDNA 2 NPU on a single die. The headline feature for local AI is **up to 128 GB of unified LPDDR5X-8000 memory** that the GPU tile can address directly — meaningful for 70B-class models that don't fit on any consumer discrete GPU. Memory bandwidth (~256 GB/s) sits well below a discrete card's GDDR6X / GDDR7 (which run 600-1500 GB/s), so tokens-per-second on large models is slower than dense-card alternatives. The trade-off operators are making: capacity over speed. Apple's M3/M4 Max chips compete in the same niche. Ships in mini-PCs and laptops from multiple OEMs through 2025-2026.

Retailers we'd check:Amazon

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BLK · SPECS

Specs

System RAM (typical)64 GB
Power draw120 W
Released2025
Backends
ROCm
Vulkan

Models that fit

Open-weight models small enough to run on AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (Strix Halo) with usable context.

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
8B · llama
Qwen 3 30B-A3B
30B · qwen
Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
32B · qwen
Qwen 3 32B
32B · qwen
Gemma 4 31B Dense
31B · gemma
Qwen 3 8B
8B · qwen
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B
32B · deepseek
Qwen 3 14B
14B · qwen

Frequently asked

Does AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (Strix Halo) support CUDA?

No — AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (Strix Halo) is an AMD card. Use ROCm (Linux) or the Vulkan backend in llama.cpp instead. CUDA-only tools won't work.

How much does AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (Strix Halo) cost?

Current street price for AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (Strix Halo) is around $2300. Prices vary by region and supply.

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