GMKtec confirms Evo-T2 gaming mini PC with Intel Core Ultra X9 388H "Panther Lake" CPU to arrive at CES 2026

GMKtec is among the most easily recognizable names when it comes to powerful mini PCs. The Evo-T1 is one such offering, powered by the powerful Intel Core Ultra 9 285H chip. We did review the system, and found it to be pretty decent in terms of performance and efficiency.

Evo-T2: Next-generation Intel-based mini PC with 16-core CPU

Naturally, the company is expected to follow up with the Evo-T2 gaming mini PC, powered by Intel's next-generation Panther Lake chips. The mini PC has already been teased before, with the company now confirming that the Evo-T2 will launch at CES 2026. Furthermore, the company has also revealed that the Evo-T2 will be powered by the Intel Core Ultra X9 388H "Panther Lake" CPU.

We have previously witnessed this CPU in leaked benchmarks, such as Geekbench, boasting a 16-core setup consisting of 4 performance, 4 low-power, and 8 efficiency cores. The Geekbench listing indicates that the CPU edges above the 3,000 point mark in single-core, and scores roughly 17,600 points in multi-core performance. Unsurprisingly, the Core Ultra 285H is left well behind, and the chip keeps pace with the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 Strix Halo APU (GMKtec Evo-X2 currently $1,660 on Amazon).

Arc B390: 12-core iGPU for discrete-class performance 

An Intel Xe3-based Arc B390 iGPU will handle graphics, packing a total of 12 cores. If leaked benchmarks are anything to go by, the B390 is expected to be as much as twice as powerful as the Radeon 890M iGPU. Clearly, the Evo-T2 is shaping up to be an impressively powerful mini PC - powerful enough to take on the heat brought by AMD's Strix Halo offerings, making it appropriate for gaming as well as local LLMs.

The Evo-T2 mini PC will sport up to 128 GB of LPDDR5X-10677 memory, dual network ports of unspecified speed, along with a plethora of other connectivity options. Storage requirements will be handled by a PCIe 4.0 and a PCIe 5.0 drive. Pricing details remain under wraps for now, although considering the unprecedented surge in DRAM prices, the memory-rich variants of the Evo-T2 are likely to cost a pretty penny.