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Hardware

the best mini PC for local AI in 2026 — how a tiny box runs models a $2,000 GPU can't

AMD's Strix Halo mini PCs put up to 128GB of unified memory in a box the size of a book — and that lets them run models no single consumer graphics card can hold. Here's the pick, and the catch.

Ravi Malhotra · Aug 4 · 10 min

AI

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 · Jul 27 · 9 min