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English => News => Topic started by: Redaktion on March 11, 2026, 15:21:30

Title: Sapphire shows off AMD Strix Halo-powered gaming mini PC with Radeon 8060s iGPU and 128 GB RAM
Post by: Redaktion on March 11, 2026, 15:21:30
Sapphire has showcased a brand-new gaming mini PC, powered by up to an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" APU with 16-cores and a powerful Radeon 8060S GPU that trades blows with desktop-class discrete GPUs. Pricing and availability details for the mini PC are under wraps for now.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Sapphire-shows-off-AMD-Strix-Halo-powered-gaming-mini-PC-with-Radeon-8060s-iGPU-and-128-GB-RAM.1247670.0.html
Title: Re: Sapphire shows off AMD Strix Halo-powered gaming mini PC with Radeon 8060s iGPU and 128 GB RAM
Post by: davidm on March 11, 2026, 17:08:47
No, what is significant about Strix Halo is its 256bit width RAM.
Title: Re: Sapphire shows off AMD Strix Halo-powered gaming mini PC with Radeon 8060s iGPU and 128 GB RAM
Post by: Is it really though? on March 12, 2026, 01:04:50
I don't really see that as significant. History has shown, that people within the AI/LLM field are willing to pay near limitless amounts of cash to get what they want.

So, based on that, why is 256-bit bus significant when there is hardware out there with 512-bit bus?
Title: Re: Sapphire shows off AMD Strix Halo-powered gaming mini PC with Radeon 8060s iGPU and 128 GB RAM
Post by: more like a 4060 Laptop on March 12, 2026, 08:50:04
Know that Strix Halo has a RDNA3.5 iGPU and as such does not support hardware-based, machine learning (ML), DLSS-like, upscaling. Only RDNA4 does that and it's only available in dedicated desktop GPU cards.

QuoteThe 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.
3dmark.com/search:
Time Spy:
4060 Laptop: Average score: 10506
Radeon 8060S iGPU: Average score: 10022
4070 Laptop: Average score: 12532

Steel Nomad (Vulkan):
4060 Laptop: Average score: 2432
Radeon 8060S iGPU: Average score: 2628
4070 Laptop: Average score: 3060
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