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Macro shot of a system-on-chip on a circuit board, representing the Strix Halo APU

how to turn 128GB of RAM into 96GB of AI memory: the Strix Halo VRAM trick nobody explains

AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ 395 lets you hand up to 96GB of its unified memory to the GPU — enough to run a 70-billion-parameter model on a mini-PC. Here's exactly how much you can allocate, how to do it, and the catch.

Ravi Malhotra · 3h ago · 9 min

Framework Desktop mini-PC, powered by the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (Strix Halo)

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a $1,999 mini-PC runs a 120-billion AI model at home. ask it to run a 70B and it chokes

the Framework Desktop and its Ryzen AI Max+ 395 twins hand you ~96GB of GPU memory for two grand — enough to load models no single consumer GPU can touch. whether they actually run fast comes down to one word: bandwidth.

Ravi Malhotra · Jul 19 · 7 min