Sapphire shows off AMD Strix Halo-powered gaming mini PC with Radeon 8060s iGPU and 128 GB RAM

About a year ago, Sapphire showed off its Edge AI lineup of mini PCs powered by up to the very potent AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 "Strix Point" APU. Now, the company has announced a fresh addition to the family, powered by an even more powerful Zen 5-based APU.

Dubbed the Sapphire Edge AI Max+ 395, the high-performance gaming mini PC is powered by the formidable AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" APU with a whopping 16 full-fat Zen 5 cores and 32 threads. When cooled properly, the powerful APU can easily trade blows with other high-end CPUs, such as the 24-core Intel Core Ultra 9 285HX CPU. 

Of course, the strongest aspect of the Strix Halo family is its powerful iGPU setup, making it a solid choice for gaming mini PCs. The Ryzen AI Max+ 395 APU packs the impressive Radeon 8060S iGPU with 40 CUs based on RDNA 3.5, allowing performance that is in the same league as an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU.

The Sapphire Edge mini PC can be equipped with up to 128 GB of LPDDR5X RAM, which can also be utilized by the iGPU. Of course, this allows the system to locally run LLMs which would simply not be possible on other consumer GPUs with limited amounts of VRAM.

Sapphire even demonstrated running two of these mini PCs in tandem, connected via USB-C. This allows resources to be pooled together, making even larger LLMs feasible for local deployment. The exact details of the USB-C port were not shared, but we have witnessed other Strix Halo systems with 80 Gbps USB 4 v2 ports. As Computerbase notes, since the mini PC only sports a single Ethernet port, network-based daisy chaining is not ideal.

Folks who would like to go all out can even daisy chain multiple of these units together, allowing for even crazier local LLM setups. Pricing and availability details are unclear as of this writing, but Sapphire does intend to officially unveil the Strix Halo-powered gaming mini PC at Computex 2026. Considering that the GMKtec Evo-X2 mini PC retails for around $2,700, the Sapphire Edge AI Max+ 395 is likely to boast a similar price tag.