HP ZBook Ultra G3a spotted on Geekbench with 96 GB of RAM and Gorgon Halo chip

[Redaktion]

An unannounced HP workstation has surfaced on Geekbench, pairing AMD's newest flagship mobile silicon with a chassis size HP hasn't offered in this series before.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/HP-ZBook-Ultra-G3a-spotted-on-Geekbench-with-96-GB-of-RAM-and-Gorgon-Halo-chip.1357240.0.html

[Terror Byte]

LOL this will at least $10K in Australia, maybe even more.

[kn0]

@Terror Byte

Gorgon Halo is just a renamed Strix Halo with software-patched support for up to 192 GB RAM. The price doesn't matter in the sense that it's only 96 GB RAM and, I think on Windows 32 GB are reserved for the OS and can not be used/allocated, so it's really 64 GB RAM. On 128 GB RAM configs, only 96 GB can be allocated. 16 GB RAM for the OS would have been enough. On Linux, a higher percentage of the total RAM/memory can be allocated. But maybe the situation on Windows is better by now.

The rest of any AI LLM model that doesn't fully fit into RAM and/or VRAM, can be offloaded to a SSD (speed will be slower, but at least it will run) (see also BigMoeOnEdge):
reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1ow0jj0/running_a_1_trillion_parameter_model_on_a_pc_with/
reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1vdbix4/deepseekv4flash_284b_on_53gb_of_memory/