AMD's 192 GB Gorgon Halo systems start at $6,799

The first systems built on AMD's Gorgon Halo system-on-chip platform are now on sale with up to 192 GB of unified memory. The memory is the selling point and the reason for the price: GMKtec's EVO-X5 Pro, one of the first machines with the top-spec Ryzen AI Max+ 495 SoC, starts at $6,799. That is enough RAM for a frontier model such as DeepSeek V4 Flash on a desk, if the buyer can absorb the premium.

A factory-overclocked Strix Halo

Gorgon Halo was announced earlier this year. It is essentially a factory-overclocked Strix Halo, the APU inside AMD's AI Halo workstation. Both chips ship with up to 16 Zen 5 cores, a 40-unit integrated GPU and an XDNA 2 NPU for Copilot+ features.

The differences are modest. AMD raised clocks by about 100 MHz across the board, and the new part supports 192 GB of 8,533 MT/s LPDDR5x, against 128 GB of 8,000 MT/s on Strix Halo. Memory bandwidth reaches 273 GB/s, about 6.5 percent above Strix Halo's 256 GB/s, and the clock bump should change little for most buyers.

What runs locally

LLM inference is memory bound, so more memory means larger models on the desk. At 4-bit precision, Gorgon Halo can run models of roughly 345 billion parameters on Linux, or 320 billion on Windows. The gap comes from memory partitioning: Windows needs 160 GB allocated to the GPU, while the Linux kernel and AMD's drivers can reach nearly the full pool. That puts models such as 284 billion parameter DeepSeek V4 Flash and Z.AI's 320 billion parameter GLM-5.3-Flash within reach.

Priced out of the market

The capacity is dear to build. A year ago a 128 GB Strix Halo box cost $2,000-$3,000 depending on the OEM; DDR5 prices then soared, and by the summer launch of AMD's AI Halo workstation the figure had reached $4,000.

With 50 percent more memory, Gorgon Halo products are dearer again. The GMKtec unit is already 64 percent more expensive, and GMKtec usually sits on the cheap side; premium brands such as Framework and notebooks such as HP's ZBook Ultra G3a will ask more.

LPDDR5x is in short supply because of the AI boom. Every NVL72 rack Nvidia sells carries between 36 and 54 TB of it, and that is only CPU memory. Samsung has warned supplies will stay tight through 2028. Nvidia has not escaped either: its GB10 workstations have roughly doubled in price, from $3,000-$4,000 a year ago to $6,000-$8,000 today. Its RTX Spark line of premium Windows systems, built on the same GB10 with up to 128 GB, is unlikely to be cheap. That leaves AMD able to undercut its rival on memory per dollar, though comparing the two is hard when neither is affordable.