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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 · 2h ago · 9 min

Hardware

Nvidia's DGX Spark costs 2.4x a Strix Halo mini-PC. it barely beats it on the number everyone checks

both give you ~128GB of unified memory for local AI, and their memory bandwidth is almost the same — 273 vs 256 GB/s. so the $2,700 gap buys something else entirely. here's what, and who it's actually for.

Ravi Malhotra · Jul 19 · 6 min

Hardware

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