AMD has introduced its Ryzen AI Halo PC, starting at $3,999, featuring Ryzen AI Max 300 CPUs. Preorders for the device will begin in June. The company promotes this system as a cost-effective solution compared to high monthly AI computing fees, asserting that users spending $773 monthly on 6 million daily AI tokens could recoup their investment in six months. Additionally, for users paying $2,253 monthly for 18 million daily tokens, AMD claims its $4,000 Radeon R9700 Pro GPU could pay for itself in three months.
The Ryzen AI Halo PC is aimed directly at NVIDIA’s DGX Spark AI PC, which is priced at $4,699. Unlike NVIDIA’s DGX Spark, which is limited to Linux, the Halo PC supports both Windows and Linux operating systems due to its x64 chip architecture. The Halo is equipped with a 50 TOPS Neural Processing Unit (NPU) and a Radeon GPU that includes 40 compute units, while both systems offer 128GB of unified system memory.
AMD has also announced its Ryzen AI Max 400 chips, led by the AI Max+ Pro 495. This chip features 16 cores, a 5.2GHz boost speed, a 55 TOPS NPU, and Radeon 8065S graphics. The AI Max 400 chips will support up to 192GB of unified memory, which includes the capacity for 160GB of GPU VRAM. According to AMD, these new chips are expected to be available in the third quarter of 2026. While they are slightly faster than the previous AI Max 395, which has a 5GHz boost clock, no comparison benchmarks have been released yet.
