AMD Ryzen AI Halo Developer Platform (Max+ 395) vs MinisForum MS-S1 MAX (Ryzen AI Max+ 395) 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	MinisForum MS-S1 MAX (Ryzen AI Max+ 395) MinisForum
Price	$3,999MSRP	$2,399MSRP
AI Framework	ROCm, Vulkan, DirectML	ROCm, Vulkan, DirectML
CPU Cores	16	16
Ethernet	Dual 10GbE	Dual 10GbE
GPU Compute Units	40	40
GPU	Radeon 8060S	Radeon 8060S
Memory Bandwidth (GB/s)	256	256
Memory Bus Width	256-bit	256-bit
Memory (GB)	128	128
Memory Type	LPDDR5X 8000	LPDDR5X 8000
Memory Upgradeable	No (soldered LPDDR5X)	No (soldered LPDDR5X)
NPU TOPS	50	50
OCuLink / PCIe	Yes (OCuLink)	Yes (USB4 V2)
OS Support	Windows 11, Linux	Windows 11 Pro, Linux
Platform	AMD Strix Halo	AMD Strix Halo
Storage Type	2x NVMe Gen4 SSD	Dual NVMe Gen4 SSD
TDP (W)	120	160
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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 ✓

MinisForum MS-S1 MAX (Ryzen AI Max+ 395)