AMD Announces Ryzen AI Halo Developer Platform for $3,999
The Ryzen AI Halo positions AMD as a direct competitor to NVIDIA's DGX Spark in the local AI development hardware space, offering a lower price point and support for large MoE models.
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AMD announced the Ryzen AI Halo, a $3,999 developer platform with 128GB unified memory that can run 200-billion-parameter AI models locally. Pre-orders begin in June 2026. AMD also revealed the Ryzen AI Max PRO 400 series for enterprise PCs, claiming it is the first x86 client processor to handle up to 300-billion-parameter models.
AMD priced the Ryzen AI Halo at $3,999, undercutting the NVIDIA DGX Spark's $4,699 list price. The platform uses the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 processor with 128GB of unified memory and can run models with up to 200 billion parameters locally, including MoE architectures like Qwen3-235B-A22B and DeepSeek-V2. Pre-orders open in June 2026, with support for Windows and Linux and ROCm optimization for generative AI workloads.
For enterprise customers, AMD also introduced the Ryzen AI Max PRO 400 series, featuring the top-end Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 with 16 cores, up to 5.2GHz, and up to 192GB unified memory. AMD claims it is the first x86 client processor capable of running models with up to 300 billion parameters locally. Systems from HP and Lenovo are expected in Q3 2026, alongside a next-generation Ryzen AI Halo developer platform with up to 192GB unified memory and 160GB VRAM.
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- ASCII.jp AMDが本気の“AIパソコン”発表、200B級モデルが動いて3999ドル