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AMD's Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" processors are high-performance mobile chips with integrated graphics that can rival a discrete GPU, an NPU capable of delivering up to 50 TOPS of hardware-accelerated AI performance, and up to 16 Zen 5 series CPU cores.
While they're designed for gaming laptops (and tablets), mobile workstation-class notebooks, and mini PCs, most of the computers featuring these chips so far have fallen into that last category. And now there's one more on the way: the Beelink GTR9 Pro is an upcoming mini PC with a Ryzen AI Max+ 395 processor. It's expected to be available soon for $1999.
That's a 16-core, 32-thread processor with support for CPU frequencies up to 5.1 GHz, 80MB cache, and Radeon 8060S integrated graphics with 40 RDNA 3.5 GPU compute units and a max frequency of 2.9 GHz.
It's also a chip that supports up to 128GB of LPDDR5x memory with bandwidth of 256 GB/s bandwidth, and as much as 96GB can be allocated for video memory. While you probably don't need that much for gaming, it could come in handy if you're running LLMs locally on the computer.
Beelink says the GTR9 Pro supports up to 126 TOPS of total AI performance (when you leverage the CPU, GPU, and NPU together), and supports 70B+ parameter models.
The mini PC also has a pretty decent set of I/O features including two 10 Gigabit LAN ports and two 40 Gbps USB-C ports on the back, plus another USB-C port, SD card reader, and headset jack on the front.
Beelink is hardly the first company to announce a Strix Halo mini PC. But the company is the first that I'm aware of to announce a model that looks like a Mac Studio, copying Apple's design language pretty closely (with a metal chassis featuring a narrow bottom with ample ventilation).
It's not a straight-up Mac Studio clone: the ports are laid out differently, there are four microphones visible on the front of the system, and it looks like the power button may be on the front instead of the back (the button also looks like it might house a fingerprint sensor, but that hasn't been confirmed).
Mac Studio clones aren't exactly new either: we've seen a few other models, but this is the first I've seen to sport an AMD processor and graphics.
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