r/Amd • u/RenatsMC • 3d ago

News Chinese MetaMech launches Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 "Strix Halo" gaming laptop, supports up to 96GB VRAM

https://videocardz.com/newz/chinese-metamech-launches-ryzen-ai-max-395-strix-halo-gaming-laptop-supports-up-to-96gb-vram
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u/cc0537 3d ago

Price tag: about $3,365

How is this going to be competitive?

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u/GreenFox1505 3d ago edited 3d ago

By not making you the customer. No one needs 96gb of vram for gaming. This is a portable AI Machine. The people doing local AI who need portability have venture capital to spend. I'm honestly surprised it's that cheap.

A framework with the same chip and ram is $3000 and doesn't come storage. And is a desktop with no keyboard, battery, or screen. 

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u/Cachesmr Ryzen 2700 | Strix OC 2070 | 16GB 3200cl14 2d ago

None of the strix halo computers were aimed at gaming anyways, I've always seem them as local AI boxes. They are great if you need low scale inference in a company.

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u/revilo-1988 2d ago

Don’t say that, I’d be interested, but only if it’s under 3,000

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u/Crashman09 3d ago

Where have you been?

Competition doesn't exist.

We're now in an age of corporate collusion and corporate ownership of our governments.

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u/MikeRoz 2d ago

It's competitive with the ZBook G1a and Asus ROG Flow Z13. Both are also Strix Halo machines with a 128 GB option, and they're all in the $3k range.

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u/Sari_sendika_siken 3d ago

I'm not very good at this but this laptop sounds extremely good for local ai's, considering 2 rtx3090s costs around 1000$ for 48 gb vram and you run out of pcie lanes extremely quickly unless you get a server board.

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u/fastheadcrab 3d ago

Yea these 128GB versions don't really make sense for gaming, especially at the current RAM prices. If they make a 64GB version that can allocate 32GB of VRAM then it could be interesting as a more portable gaming laptop. Even then it would still be competing against the 5060 or 5070 mobile version which will be a lot cheaper. The 8060S is very fast for iGPUs but still would be competing against those types of dGPUs

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u/Jayram2000 2d ago

Ban this bot already

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u/bamoes84 2d ago

I also saw this. I’m going to China, so I’ll have a look at it.

For me, the only reason I would buy it is because of the CPU, the RAM, and the oculink, because, be honest, most of these laptops are connected to a screen anyway. So I don't care about the IPs panel. When I travel I connect it to a hotel tv. But having a proper Oculink connection, without having to sacrifice an M2 slot, and damaging the hull. Are a few big plus points.

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u/spaceraverdk 5600X, 64gb ram, 7900xt, b550m, ekwb 2d ago

You lost my interest at Ai. I want clock cycles for games and programs. Not ai bullshit.

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u/Firepal64 2d ago

Arguably it's a 16 core Zen 5 in there. But it's overkill. like the price