Powerful Strix Halo-powered gaming mini PC from AMD listed for $3,999 ahead of launch

AMD has shown off its Ryzen AI Halo mini PC several times in the past, promising outstanding local LLM performance thanks to a powerful Strix Halo APU boasting an iGPU with a whopping 40 CUs and 128 GB of shared VRAM.

The mini PC has now appeared on MicroCenter's online store, featuring a hefty price tag of $3,999. According to the website, the product should be available for purchase starting the 10th of July. It also seems that MicroCenter will be sole retail partner for the capable mini PC.

We have already witnessed the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 APU powering other high-end mini PCs aimed at gaming as well as local AI workloads, such as the GMKtec Evo-X2 which costs a whopping $600 less (currently $3,399 on Amazon). Our review of the product was very promising, revealing CPU performance which keeps up with the Ryzen 9 7945HX Dragon Range CPU and iGPU performance that challenges an RTX 4070 Laptop discrete GPU.

Moreover, our review also indicates that the Radeon 8060S iGPU also promises excellent gaming performance, outperforming the RTX 4070 Laptop GPU found in the impressive AtomMan G7 Ti mini PC. LLMs should run decently well on the system, with AMD claiming support for massive models, such as GPT OSS (120B), Qwen 3.5 (120B), as well as smaller models such as GLM 4.7 Flash and Qwen 3.6 35B.

Interestingly, AMD claims a 4% to 14% superiority in performance over the Nvidia DGX Spark, which costs roughly the same. Unlike the Spark, which is limited to Linux, the AI Halo mini PC from Team Red can run both Windows as well as Linux. However, the latter does lack the 200 GbE ultra-fast networking capabilities found in Nvidia's offering, and settles for a much slower 10 G port.