GMKtec EVO-X5 Pro breaks the 128GB ceiling with Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495

Every Strix Halo mini PC we have covered this year has topped out at 128GB of unified memory. GMKtec’s EVO-X5 Pro breaks that ceiling. Built around AMD’s new Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495, the Gorgon Halo chip, it takes unified memory to 192GB, and for a specific kind of photographer and video professional that changes what a machine this size can do. Details are on the official GMKtec EVO-X5 Pro page. What is new versus the EVO-X3 The chip is the headline. The Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 is a refresh of the Strix Halo platform, same 16 Zen 5 cores and 32 threads, same 40-compute-unit Radeon graphics architecture, but with two meaningful changes. Boost clock rises to 5.2GHz, and, far more importantly, the supported memory ceiling jumps from 128GB to 192GB of LPDDR5X-8533. The integrated graphics are now the Radeon 8065S, with an XDNA 2 NPU rated at up...