Ryzen AI Halo

I wasn’t expecting the claim of 82% gain vs Strix Point to hold up in third party reviews, but here we are. The gap is pretty astonishing, almost painful considering APUs used to be AMD’s unique thing. Also, interesting point they raise: because Panther Lake gets the full featureset of XeSS 3 (SS +

The latency change ain't caused by the interconnect or packaging, it's caused by the use of lpddr with really loose timings. Point here, the product focuses on bandwidth for the igpu and not cpu gaming perf. It's a mobile workstation design that focuses on raw compute and not games That's a sea of w

The AI environment right now is still very new. Local hosting LLM is still a very niche market. For 99% of the AI users, it's still better off going subscription route, because self hosting LLM requires hardware like DGS Spark, AMD Strix Halo or RTX spark now, which is very expensive and the model t

There are lots of options but The Steam Machine is typical pricing for sub 3 litre machines. A step up would be Atomman gaming options from Minisforum, high end would be the Rog NUC range and the new Ryzen AI Max+ 395 machines. I suspect there will be Panther lake options out there soon. For indie a

You've got to be joking, the Steam machine is practically just valve dumpster diving for parts AMD has been rotting on shelves the 7600M and whatever laptop GPUs is in the steam machine is very weak. Can't compete with the Strix halo at all.

Not most accounts, it is objectively significantly faster than legion go 2. I just finished up my review of the 1X player X2 with the G3E and I'll have that published tomorrow. Long story short unless the game is extremely preferential towards AMD, there's no way that the 890 M can compete. It's a f

I was torn between pulling the trigger on the Nvidia DGX and the Strix Halo. Both have flaws, to be honest... I think it depends on your use case. As you mentioned, the software support isn't even close to NVIDIA. On my NVIDIA desktop everything works out of the box. It has an RTX 4090 and I don't n

Your premise is actually based on a misunderstanding of the architecture. The Ryzen AI Max+ 395 and 388 (AMD 'Strix Halo' family) do not use a multi-CCD layout with cross-latency penalties like desktop chips. Both the 395 and 388 are single-die, monolithic APUs. Because there is no second CCD, there

I went pc but still have 2 Xbox consoles. I chose an AMD Strix Halo platform since it’s about as good as a 3060 class and does 4k 120 fine. My biggest grove is the tone ring as it’s running on Ubuntu Plasma. I tried SteamOS and Bazanite but it failed to work with Dolby 7.1. So now I am in a Linux ti

I hope you understand than 1 was actually 2 options. AMD strix halo or Mac. The strix might actually work for you but you’ll take a hit in upgradability and gaming. No judgement here, you can afford what you can afford, but if your intention is to spend 40% of your usage with LLMs you likely are in