AMD Ryzen AI Halo Developer Platform (Max+ 395) vs ASRock NUC BOX-255H (Core Ultra 7 255H) for Local AI: Local AI Performance

Side-by-side specification comparison with AI model-fit analysis. Data sourced from manufacturer specs, verified 2026-07-21.

	AMD Ryzen AI Halo Developer Platform (Max+ 395) AMD	ASRock NUC BOX-255H (Core Ultra 7 255H) ASRock
Price	$3,999MSRP	$699MSRP
AI Framework	ROCm, Vulkan, DirectML	OpenVINO, DirectML
CPU Cores	16	16
Ethernet	Dual 10GbE	2.5GbE
GPU Compute Units	40	8
GPU	Radeon 8060S	Intel Arc
Memory Bandwidth (GB/s)	256	102.4
Memory Bus Width	256-bit	128-bit
Memory (GB)	128	96
Memory Type	LPDDR5X 8000	DDR5 6400 SODIMM
Memory Upgradeable	No (soldered LPDDR5X)	Yes (DDR5 SODIMM)
NPU TOPS	50	13
OCuLink / PCIe	Yes (OCuLink)	No
OS Support	Windows 11, Linux	Windows 11, Linux
Platform	AMD Strix Halo	Intel Arrow Lake-H
Storage Type	2x NVMe Gen4 SSD	NVMe Gen4 SSD
TDP (W)	120	65
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Model Fit Analysis

AMD Ryzen AI Halo Developer Platform (Max+ 395)

Max Q4: 70B class models (169.4B params)

Usable AI memory: 88.2GB · Method: unified_memory_desktop_workload Conservative

Llama 3.1 8B ✓

Llama 3.1 70B ✓

Llama 3.2 1B ✓

Llama 3.2 3B ✓

Qwen 2.5 7B ✓

Qwen 2.5 14B ✓

Qwen 2.5 32B ✓

Qwen 2.5 72B ✓

Mistral 7B ✓

Mixtral 8x7B ✓

DeepSeek R1 7B ✓

DeepSeek R1 32B ✓

DeepSeek R1 70B ✓

Phi-3 Medium 14B ✓

Gemma 2 9B ✓

Gemma 2 27B ✓

Stable Diffusion XL ✓

Flux.1 Dev ✓

Flux.1 Schnell ✓

ASRock NUC BOX-255H (Core Ultra 7 255H)

Max Q4: 70B class models (85B params)

Usable AI memory: 46GB · Method: intel_igpu_bios_limited Conservative