GoKawiilThe AMD Ryzen AI Halo is a truly mini-PC built around the Zen 5 AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 processor (16 core, 32 thread) that streamlines learning AI development with ROCm or AMD hardware. The Max+ 395 processor is equipped with AMD Radeon 8060S integrated graphics which will be doing most of the heavy lifting, and an NPU which historically doesn't do much, but we were finally able to use.
AMD Ryzen AI Halo
It comes in a single hardware configuration with a removable 2 TB M.2 SSD and 128 GB of unified LPDDR5x-8000 memory capable of 256 GB/s bandwidth. 2 TB is a good amount of storage to hoard local models, and 128 GB is certainly enough memory to load a couple reasonably sized models into memory while reserving some space for system operation.
Spec AMD Ryzen AI Halo DGX Spark Mac Studio Framework Desktop CPU 16-core Zen 5 AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 20-core Arm (10P+10E) GB10 Up to 32-core (24P+8E) M3 Ultra Up to 16-core Zen 5 AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 GPU Integrated 40 RDNA 3.5 Compute Unit AMD Radeon 8060S 6144-CUDA-core GB20B Up to 80-core M3 GPU cores Up to Integrated 40 RDNA 3.5 Compute Unit AMD Radeon 8060S NPU/Tensor AMD XDNA 2 NPU 5th Generation Tensor Cores Up to 32-core Neural Engine AMD XDNA 2 NPU Memory 128 GB LPDDR5x-8000 unified memory 128 GB LPDDR5x unified memory Up to 512 GB unified memory Up to 128 GB LPDDR5x-8000 unified memory Memory Bandwidth 256 GB/s 273 GB/s Up to 819 GB/s 256 GB/s Storage 2 TB 4 TB Up to 16 TB Up to 16 TB
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AMD Ryzen AI Halo Product Page
The AI Halo can be purchased for $3,999.99 USD in a single hardware configuration, preloaded with either Windows 11 Pro or Linux. You are able to load your own OS on the system once you have it, but as far as we know AMD won’t be making the ‘factory’ Linux and Windows installs(packaged drivers, programs, and models) available.
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