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 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

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

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