AMD’s Ryzen AI Max PRO 400 Chips Push Mobile Workstations to 192GB RAM
AMD is giving its high-end mobile workstation chips a serious memory upgrade with the new Ryzen AI Max PRO 400 series — and this one is less about flashy gaming FPS, more about heavy creative work, local AI, and compact powerhouse PCs.
The headline chip is the Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495, which sits above last year’s already gila-powerful Ryzen AI Max+ 395. On paper, the core formula is familiar: a 16-core, 32-thread Zen 5 CPU, integrated Radeon 8060S graphics with 40 RDNA 3.5 GPU cores, and a dedicated NPU for AI acceleration.
But the big flex this round is memory. AMD says the new Ryzen AI Max PRO 400 chips can support up to 192GB of LPDDR5x-8000 RAM, compared with the 128GB ceiling on the previous Ryzen AI Max 300 generation. Even more interesting, users can allocate up to 160GB as VRAM, which opens the door for much larger local AI models.
AMD claims this makes the Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 the first x86 client processor able to support local AI models with over 300 billion parameters. That’s not your usual “AI laptop can blur your background” marketing line — this is aimed at developers, researchers, studios, and serious pros who want to run huge workloads locally instead of depending fully on cloud services.
For Malaysia and SEA, that matters more than it sounds. Cloud AI tools are powerful, but costs, data privacy, internet stability, and latency can still be annoying — especially for smaller studios, indie devs, universities, and content teams. A compact workstation or mini PC that can run heavier AI models locally could be very useful for game development, video production, 3D work, and internal tools.
Performance upgrades outside memory are more modest. The Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 still uses the same 16-core, 32-thread setup and 40-core integrated GPU configuration, but the CPU boost clock climbs from 5.1GHz to 5.2GHz. The GPU also gets a small bump, going from 2.9GHz to 3GHz. The NPU is now rated at up to 55 TOPS, up from 50 TOPS.
So yeah, don’t expect this to suddenly turn thin laptops into RTX gaming monsters. The upgrade is more “workstation refinement” than “new generation leap”. But for people dealing with AI, large datasets, code, video editing, and GPU memory-heavy workloads, that 192GB RAM support is the real boss fight.
AMD’s new lineup also includes the Ryzen AI Max PRO 490, with 12 cores and 24 threads, and the Ryzen AI Max PRO 485, with 8 cores and 16 threads. Both come with Radeon 8050S graphics with 32 GPU cores and 50 TOPS NPUs. Like the flagship, the major difference versus the older Ryzen AI Max 385 and 390 chips is the higher memory ceiling.
AMD has not given a firm launch date yet, only saying the chips are coming “soon”. One confirmed system is AMD’s own Ryzen AI Halo mini PC for developers, which will be available with the Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495.
For regular gamers in Malaysia, this probably won’t be the chip you hunt for on Shopee during sale season. Expect this class of hardware to land in premium workstations, creator laptops, and developer-focused mini PCs rather than mainstream gaming machines. But if you care about where compact PCs are heading, this is a big signal: serious AI and workstation workloads are moving into smaller boxes, not just giant desktop towers.
Source: Liliputing
