AMD has unveiled its Ryzen AI Halo PC, a new system designed for local AI processing, priced starting at $3,999 and featuring Ryzen AI Max 300 CPUs. Preorders for the Halo PC will begin in June. The company also announced it plans to release future models equipped with Ryzen AI Max 400 chips.
Aimed at the professional market, AMD positions the Halo as a cost-effective alternative to high monthly AI computing fees. Developers utilizing 6 million daily AI tokens at a cost of $773 monthly could recoup their investment in less than six months. For heavier workloads, the $4,000 Radeon R9700 Pro GPU is projected to break even for users spending $2,253 a month on 18 million daily tokens within three months.
AMD’s system targets the same clientele as NVIDIA’s DGX Spark AI PC, which has a starting price of $4,699. A key difference is that the Halo can operate on both Windows and Linux due to its x64 chip architecture, while the DGX Spark is limited to Linux. The Halo is equipped with a 50 TOPS NPU and a Radeon GPU with 40 compute units, contrary to the DGX Spark that relies solely on NVIDIA’s Blackwell GPU.
Both the Halo and the DGX Spark come with 128GB of unified system memory, exceeding that of popular AI systems like the Mac Mini and Mac Studio. The upcoming Ryzen AI Max 400 chips, expected in late 2026, will feature the AI Max+ Pro 495, a 16-core chip capable of a 5.2GHz boost speed, along with a 55 TOPS NPU and Radeon 8065S graphics. These new chips will support up to 192GB of unified memory and provide 160GB of GPU VRAM.
Although the Ryzen AI Max 400 chips boast slightly improved performance over the AI Max 395, which has a 5GHz boost clock speed, benchmark comparisons have yet to be released. AMD has stated that the Ryzen AI Max 400 chips will become available in the third quarter of 2026.
