AMD's new Ryzen AI Halo Developer Platform with the Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 is on sale in the US for $7,299.99 at Micro Center, the retailer AMD's product page links to. Micro Center's page says "Available for In-Store Pickup Only" and "Shipping Not Available", so you need a store near you. The 128GB Windows model it follows is also pickup only.

What Micro Center lists

  • Price: $7,299.99, in-store pickup only.
  • Memory: 192GB of LPDDR5x-8533. AMD lists 273GB/s of bandwidth.
  • Chip: Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495, 16 cores and 32 threads, Zen 5, boost up to 5.2GHz from a 3.1GHz base, Radeon 8065S graphics with 40 compute units and an XDNA 2 NPU rated up to 55 TOPS. Micro Center lists L2 16MB plus L3 64MB of cache; AMD's launch blog gives 80MB total.
  • Storage and ports: 2TB M.2 SSD (SED), 10GbE, Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4, HDMI 2.1b and three USB-C ports plus one for power.
  • Software: Micro Center's listing is the Linux version. AMD's page says Linux or Windows 11.
  • Size: 150 x 150 x 45.4 mm, under 1.2 kg, 120W TDP.

Against the 128GB model

Micro Center's Windows 11 Pro Ryzen AI Max+ 395 model, with 128GB of LPDDR5x-8000 and 2TB, is $3,999.99. The new one costs $3,300 more for 64GB more memory.

AMD says the PRO 400 series reaches "up to 192GB of unified memory and 160GB of VRAM". Its footnote reads: "As of 5/11/2026, the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 495 PRO processor supports up to 160 GB dedicated graphics memory which is capable of running 300 billion+ parameters at 4-bit quantization." So 160GB is the most that can be dedicated to graphics, out of the 192GB total; the rest stays for the system. Notebookcheck says the Radeon 8065S is a minor revision of the Radeon 8060S with the same 40 compute units, and that it measured modest CPU gains.

Against similar mini PCs

  • GMKtec EVO-X5 Pro: same chip class and 192GB. GMKtec's US store listed it at $6,799 for 2TB on Oct. 11, with add to cart enabled. We did not place an order.
  • Dell Creator Edition Desktop: Dell says it is "coming soon", with no price. It uses NVIDIA RTX Spark.
  • NVIDIA RTX Spark: NVIDIA lists up to 128GB of unified memory, so 192GB is more than that platform offers.

Why it matters

The extra $3,300 buys capacity first. AMD confirms 40 compute units, the same count as the 395's 8060S, and Notebookcheck measured modest CPU gains. We have not tested the faster memory (8533 against 8000) or running several models at once.

The extra memory matters most for models that do not fit in 128GB, and AMD's 160GB VRAM figure is a maximum, not a guarantee.

What we could not verify

  • We have not run benchmarks or tested the machine.
  • How the 160GB VRAM split is set on the Micro Center unit.
  • Stock at any store: we could not select one.
  • Whether a Windows version or other stores will follow.