GMKtec releases cheaper AMD Strix Halo desktop with 128 GB RAM and 96 GB VRAM

[Redaktion]

GMKtec has updated one of its popular mini-PCs with a new version. This time, the company has re-released the EVO-X2 with a cheaper model, albeit while retaining 128 GB RAM and a Ryzen AI Max+ 395 chipset with a Radeon 8060S iGPU.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/GMKtec-releases-cheaper-AMD-Strix-Halo-desktop-with-128-GB-RAM-and-96-GB-VRAM.1345433.0.html

[misleading title? -- also]

title is a bit misleading: it's 128 GB RAM and 96 GB VRAM that can be assigned.

All interesting (quants of) AI LLM MoE models require more than 128 GB RAM, namely at least 192 or better 256 GB RAM:
artificialanalysis.ai/?models=qwen3-5-122b-a10b-non-reasoning%2Cqwen3-5-122b-a10b%2Cmimo-v2-5-0424%2Cqwen3-6-27b-non-reasoning%2Cminimax-m2-7%2Cqwen3-6-35b-a3b-non-reasoning%2Cstep-3-7-flash%2Cqwen3-6-35b-a3b%2Cdeepseek-v4-flash-high%2Cqwen3-6-27b%2Cdeepseek-v4-flash-non-reasoning%2Chy3%2Cgemma-4-31b%2Cgemma-4-31b-non-reasoning%2Cdeepseek-v4-flash%2Cmistral-medium-3-5%2Cgpt-oss-120b%2Cnvidia-nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b&intelligence=artificial-analysis-intelligence-index