Beelink SER9 (Ryzen AI 9 HX 370) vs MSI Cubi 5 (Core i5-13420H) 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	MSI Cubi 5 (Core i5-13420H) MSI
Price	$749MSRP	$449MSRP
AI Framework	ROCm, Vulkan, ONNX RT	OpenVINO (CPU)
CPU Cores	12	8
Ethernet	2.5GbE	2.5GbE
GPU Compute Units	16	48
GPU	Radeon 890M	Intel UHD Graphics
Memory Bandwidth (GB/s)	120	83.2
Memory Bus Width	128-bit	128-bit
Memory (GB)	32	32
Memory Type	LPDDR5X 7500	DDR5 5200 SODIMM
Memory Upgradeable	No (soldered LPDDR5X)	Yes (DDR5 SODIMM)
NPU TOPS	50	0
OCuLink / PCIe	No	No
OS Support	Windows 11, Linux	Windows 11, Linux
Platform	AMD Strix Point	Intel Raptor Lake-H
Storage Type	NVMe Gen4 SSD	NVMe Gen4 SSD
TDP (W)	65	45
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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 ✓

MSI Cubi 5 (Core i5-13420H)

Max Q4: 14B class models (21B params)

Usable AI memory: 14GB · Method: intel_igpu_bios_limited Conservative