Maybe i missed a note here or there but the product page for the Ryzen AI Max 300 series show a desktop form factor.
So i was wondering if and if so, when (ballpark guesstimate) might a desktop version appear? I understand that will be a integrated solution, with mem fixed on board. Though i'd love to get my hands dirty testing that little beast, with focus on AI workloads with large models which do NOT play nice with my rx7900xt when more than 20GB of VRAM being used. Also would like to compare linux vs windows/wsl performance vs rx7900xt for gemma3b llm. As well as benchmarking with AMD amuse .. (if/when supported)
Are there any options actually availabe? All products that come up are anouncements but not actual product launches.
So the questions really boil down to:
1) will there be DIY options, and any chance that mem is modulair, not solderd to the board?!
2) are the release partners that go beyond mini-pc formfactor
3) trying to get our MT to consider Ryzen AI APU's, as they finally see AMD as an option with dell and HP offering AMD hardware. I know our director, as well as Chief Sales, will be surprised with the desktop performance, but even more when i show what actuall LLM's are able to do locally on good hardware.
4) this level of capabele HW, while not being top dog performer, makes it possible for me to do some experiments which we will require about 63~65GB in dataset .. and other options capabele to run such a large model are not within budget. More TOPS is nice, but only usefull when the model actually runs, and shelling out €8,5K isnt really an option.
I could go the pure CPU way for my project, and compare that with a intel core ultra 285 i got offered as a test-platform. But being an long-time AMD supporter, leaving out the most potent platform and having to recommend Intel (just for being available to me) doesnt feel right.
Any tips, suggestions or documentation to look at will be appreciated. Lol, if anyone has some review samples collecting dust, i'd be happy to brush that dust off grin..
