EVO-X5 Pro
The first 192 GB Strix-class mini-PC you can order in the UK — AMD's Gorgon Halo silicon, with up to 160 GB for the GPU.
Price
£5,299
gmktec.uk 192 GB / 2 TB (4 TB £5,549) · ships from China, VAT basis not stated · US list $6,799
verified 2026-11 · supply & lease options in every proposal
- 192 GB
- Unified memory
- ~273 GB/s
- Memory bandwidth
- 55 TOPS
- XDNA 2 NPU
- 2× 10 GbE
- Networking
up to 160 GB to the GPU
LPDDR5X-8533
Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495
+ 2× USB4 v2 (80 Gb/s)
AMD's Ryzen AI Max 400 series ('Gorgon Halo') is the Strix Halo refresh: the Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 keeps 16 Zen 5 cores and a 40-CU GPU (Radeon 8065S) but raises the memory ceiling to 192 GB of LPDDR5X-8533 — about 273 GB/s, with up to 160 GB allocatable to the GPU. GMKtec's EVO-X5 Pro is the one you can buy in the UK today.
The 160 GB GPU window is the point: Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (~111 GB at 4-bit) fits with real context headroom, and a 120B-class model can sit resident alongside a small triage model. Bandwidth barely moves (≈273 vs 256 GB/s), so per-stream speed stays Strix-class — the gain is capacity, not tokens per second.
It is £5,299 for 192 GB / 2 TB on GMKtec's UK store (shipped from China; VAT basis not stated). Dual 10 GbE and USB4 v2 make it the best-networked box in the family; gpt-oss-120b benchmarks on this silicon weren't published at time of writing.
vs its siblings: The first 192 GB Gorgon Halo box with UK supply.
Memory, to scale
192 GB model-visible · bandwidth is the speed limit
Unified LPDDR5X
192 GB · ~273 GB/s
LPDDR5x
For scale
DGX Spark — 128 GB @ 273 GB/s
RTX PRO 6000 — 96 GB @ 1.79 TB/s
Mac Studio M5 Ultra — 512 GB @ 1.2 TB/s
DGX Station GB300 — 748 GB coherent
What it actually runs
Declared from research and benchmarks, not computed marketing — tokens-per-second figures are cited where a real measurement exists.
- Qwen3.8-Flash-NextQ4 (~111 GB)with headroomfits the 160 GB GPU window with context headroom
- Qwen3.5 122BInt4 (~79 GB)with headroomroom for long context or a second model
- gpt-oss-120bMXFP4with headroomStrix-class speed — Gorgon Halo benchmarks not yet published
- Qwen3.6 35BQ4with headroomrun it alongside a 120B model for triage
The full sheet
Compute
- APU
- AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 — 16× Zen 5 (32 threads) to 5.2 GHz
- GPU
- Radeon 8065S — 40 CU RDNA 3.5
- NPU
- XDNA 2 — 55 TOPS
Memory
- Unified memory
- 192 GB LPDDR5X-8533 (soldered)
- GPU allocation
- Up to 160 GB
Storage & I/O
- Storage
- 3× M.2 (to 24 TB)
- Networking
- 2× 10 GbE
- Ports
- 2× USB4 v2 (80 Gb/s) + 2× USB4
- Management
- AMD DASH remote management · TPM 2.0
Where it shines
- 192 GB — the most unified memory under £6k in the catalogue
- Up to 160 GB for the GPU: 180B-class MoE models at 4-bit with headroom
- Dual 10 GbE and USB4 v2 — the best networking in the family
- AMD DASH remote management and TPM 2.0 for office deployment
The trade-offs
- Bandwidth barely moves (~273 GB/s) — more capacity, same speed per stream
- Ships from China; UK VAT and import treatment not stated
- New silicon — few published LLM benchmarks yet
- Consumer-grade warranty and support
Buy this box for
Understanding AMD Strix Halo
Ryzen AI Max+ 395 · Max+ PRO 495
AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ 395 ('Strix Halo') puts 16 Zen 5 cores, a 40-CU Radeon 8060S GPU and up to 128 GB of unified LPDDR5X-8000 on one package. Framework, HP, GMKtec, Beelink, Corsair and AMD itself all ship it as a compact desktop — and the memory shortage has pushed UK prices for 128 GB machines to £2,830 (GMKtec) to £5,304 (HP).
It is a mixture-of-experts machine: gpt-oss-120b runs at 30–55 tok/s and even Qwen3-235B squeezes in at 3-bit (~11 tok/s), but dense 70B models crawl at ~5 tok/s because 256 GB/s of bandwidth is the ceiling. The software stack (Vulkan / ROCm / llama.cpp / LM Studio) is genuinely usable in 2026 but remains a step behind CUDA for production serving and fine-tuning.
The refresh has arrived: AMD's Ryzen AI Max 400 series ('Gorgon Halo') — the Max+ PRO 495 with a Radeon 8065S — lifts the ceiling to 192 GB of LPDDR5X-8533 (about 273 GB/s, up to 160 GB for the GPU). GMKtec's EVO-X5 Pro is £5,299 in the UK and Framework's 192 GB board is £6,799 on pre-order, shipping in December: more capacity, much the same speed.
Siblings on the same silicon
HP
Z2 Mini G1a
The corporate Strix Halo — a 2.7-litre workstation with tier-1 warranty and UK stock, at £5,303.99 after the memory-shortage price doubling.
- Memory
- 128 GB
- Bandwidth
- 256 GB/s
- AI perf
- 40-CU RDNA 3.5
£5,303.99 inc VAT
hp.com/gb-en sale price, 128 GB / 2 TB (8T219EA) — list £6,623.99 · was £2,663.99 in July
Framework
Framework Desktop
The community favourite — the best-documented local-LLM box on the platform, from the repairability company, now with a 192 GB board on the way.
- Memory
- 128 GB
- Bandwidth
- 256 GB/s
- AI perf
- 40-CU RDNA 3.5
£3,449 inc VAT (128 GB, before SSD)
Framework UK DIY edition, ships within 5 business days · US $3,449 (launch $1,999) · 192 GB Max+ PRO 495 £6,799 pre-order, ships Dec
GMKtec
EVO-X2
The cheap seat — 128 GB of unified memory for £2,829.99, if you can live with consumer-grade support.
- Memory
- 128 GB
- Bandwidth
- 256 GB/s
- AI perf
- 40-CU RDNA 3.5
£2,829.99
gmktec.uk 128 GB / 1 TB (2 TB £3,019.99) · ships from mainland China — VAT/import treatment not stated
Sources & verification
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