Beelink SER9 (Ryzen AI 9 HX 370) vs Mac mini M4 Max (128GB) 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.

	Beelink SER9 (Ryzen AI 9 HX 370) Beelink	Mac mini M4 Max (128GB) Apple
Price	$749MSRP	$3,199MSRP
AI Framework	ROCm, Vulkan, ONNX RT	MLX, CoreML, llama.cpp
CPU Cores	12	16
Ethernet	2.5GbE	10GbE (optional)
GPU Compute Units	16	40
GPU	Radeon 890M	Apple M4 Max GPU
Memory Bandwidth (GB/s)	120	546
Memory Bus Width	128-bit	256-bit
Memory (GB)	32	128
Memory Type	LPDDR5X 7500	Unified LPDDR5X
Memory Upgradeable	No (soldered LPDDR5X)	No (unified memory)
NPU TOPS	50	38
OCuLink / PCIe	No	No
OS Support	Windows 11, Linux	macOS
Platform	AMD Strix Point	Apple M4 Max
Storage Type	NVMe Gen4 SSD	NVMe SSD
TDP (W)	65	80
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Model Fit Analysis

Beelink SER9 (Ryzen AI 9 HX 370)

Max Q4: 34B class models (38B params)

Usable AI memory: 22.5GB · Method: amd_igpu_bios_limited 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 ✓

Mac mini M4 Max (128GB)

Max Q4: 70B class models (168B params)

Usable AI memory: 87.5GB · Method: unified_memory_desktop_workload Conservative