AMD Ryzen AI Max PRO 400 brings support for up to 192GB RAM (plus smaller CPU, GPU, and NPU speed boosts)

AMD’s Ryzen AI Max+ 395 processor has been one of the most powerful mobile chips available for the past year or so, thanks to its combination of a 16-core, 32-thread CPU based on Zen 5 architecture, Radeon 8060S integrated graphics with 40 RDNA 3.5 GPU cores, and a 50 TOPS NPU.

Now AMD is introducing an even higher performance model called the Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495. Like other AMD Ryzen 400 series mobile processors, it’s kind of a modest update that will likely only bring a small speed boost to CPU and GPU performance. But with support for up to 50% more memory, AMD says it’s the first x86 client chip capable of supporting local AI models with 300+ billion parameters.

The Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 is part of the new AMD Ryzen AI Max PRO 400 series of processors, all of which now support up to 192GB of LPDDR5x-8000 memory. Users can allocate up to 160GB of that for use as VRAM, which should allow users to run larger LLMs locally.

Otherwise, the key differences between the new chips and their Ryzen AI Max 300 predecessors are slight speed boosts.

For example, the Max+ PRO 495 is still a 16-core, 32-thread chip with 40-core graphics. But now the CPU has a max boost speed of 5.2 GHz, up from 5.1 GHz. And the GPU tops out at 3 GHz, up from 2.9 GHz. The NPU also now supports up to 55 TOPS.

Other chips in the new Max PRO 400 lineup include the 12-core, 24-thread Ryzen AI Max PRO 490 and 8-core, 16-thread Ryzen AI Max PRO 485. Both have 32-core Radeon 8050S graphics, 50 TOPS NPUs and… spec sheets that would look suspiciously similar to the previous-gen Ryzen AI Max 385/390 if it weren’t for the fact that the new chips support up to 192GB of RAM, while the previous-gen topped out at 128GB.

AMD hasn’t announced when the new chips will be available, other than “soon,” but AMD has already announced at least one computer that will be available with a Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 chip – the company’s own Ryzen AI Halo mini PC for developers.