Strix Halo

Strix Halo is AMD's codename for the Ryzen AI Max 300 series of laptop and desktop processors. Each one combines Zen 5 CPU cores, a Radeon GPU and a neural processing unit (NPU) in one package. The CPU and GPU draw from one pool of low-power DDR5X (LPDDR5X) memory, so data passes between them without copies. The 16-core Ryzen AI Max+ 395 tops the series.

The Ryzen AI Max+ 395 pairs its 16 Zen 5 cores with a Radeon 8060S GPU of 40 compute units. Its NPU is rated at up to 50 trillion operations per second (TOPS). It takes up to 128 GB of LPDDR5X-8000 on a 256-bit bus, which AMD rates at 256 GB/s. AMD's Variable Graphics Memory setting dedicates up to 96 GB of a 128 GB system to the GPU, which can address 112 GB in total. AMD says that is enough to run 4-bit language models of up to 128 billion parameters.

Pick Strix Halo to run one large model locally that will not fit in a single graphics card's memory, when speed is secondary. Pick a discrete GPU with more memory bandwidth when tokens per second decide it, since token speed scales with bandwidth and this chip has 256 GB/s.

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Last verified October 7, 2026.