GMKtec EVO-X2: a Ryzen AI Max+ 395 mini PC with real editing and local-AI muscle

Mini PCs don’t often make it onto a photography site, but the GMKtec EVO-X2 earns its place. It packs AMD’s flagship Ryzen AI Max+ 395 — the “Strix Halo” chip — into a compact desktop box, and the combination of a serious integrated GPU, a huge pool of fast unified memory and a dedicated AI engine makes it a genuinely interesting proposition for photographers and video editors who want a small, capable editing machine that can also run AI tools locally. You can find full details on the official GMKtec EVO-X2 product page. The spec sheet is what makes it stand out. The Ryzen AI Max+ 395 brings 16 Zen 5 cores and 32 threads clocking up to 5.1GHz, paired with a Radeon 8060S integrated GPU built on RDNA 3.5 with 40 compute units — integrated graphics that punch up towards discrete RTX 4060/4070 territory, which is remarkable for a...