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128GB does not mean 128GB for the model. Plan on 96GB, and the box becomes a home for 100B-plus Mixture-of-Experts models. Five picks by job, with the math shown.
Aliteq Team · 15h ago · 11 min
A 128GB Strix Halo mini PC and a 128GB Mac Studio give an AI model about the same 96GB to work with. One costs $3,449 at Framework's US store, the other $5,099 at Apple's. Here is what the extra $1,650 buys, and what it doesn't.
Aliteq Team · Oct 7 · 13 min
A quality Q4 Scout wants ~62GB — which no single consumer GPU has, but a 96–128GB Strix Halo or Mac Studio holds whole. Why unified memory is Scout's natural home, and the one honest trade-off.
Aliteq Team · Sep 22 · 8 min
Building around a single GPU used to be the obvious move. With cards jumping 39% in two months, the math on prebuilt AI appliances just got a lot more interesting.
Aliteq Team · Aug 14 · 8 min
A book-sized box with 128GB of unified memory can run models no single consumer GPU can hold. The honest hub for the whole category — Strix Halo, Mac Studio and DGX Spark — and when a GPU still wins.
Aliteq Team · Aug 4 · 10 min
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.
Aliteq Team · Jul 27 · 9 min
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.
Aliteq Team · Jul 19 · 6 min
the Framework Desktop and its Ryzen AI Max+ 395 twins hand you ~96GB of GPU memory for less than one RTX 5090 costs today — enough to load models no single consumer GPU can touch. whether they actually run fast comes down to one word: bandwidth.
Aliteq Team · Jul 19 · 7 min