Custom laptop with AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 395 and Nvidia RTX 5090

[ZeroInfinite]

Hi,

I'm interested in purchasing a laptop and at the moment, I'm looking at the upcoming Asus models which have a Nvidia RTX 5090 and an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 but the storage is only at 1TB.

I was wondering if PC Specialist would be offering a custom laptop with the CPU (Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 395) and GPU (RTX 5090) combination at some point?

 

[SpyderTracks]

Hi,

I'm interested in purchasing a laptop and at the moment, I'm looking at the upcoming Asus models which have a Nvidia RTX 5090 and an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 but the storage is only at 1TB.

I was wondering if PC Specialist would be offering a custom laptop with the CPU (Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 395) and GPU (RTX 5090) combination at some point?

The new custom chassis normally go live end of March / April time each year.

PCS don't pre-announce upcoming models, they just show up on the configurator, so you just have to keep an eye out.

 

[ZeroInfinite]

The new custom chassis normally go live end of March / April time each year.

PCS don't pre-announce upcoming models, they just show up on the configurator, so you just have to keep an eye out.

Ah Thank you.

 

[SpyderTracks]

Ah Thank you.

I’m really keen to see some 3rd party benchmarks for the Ryzen AI series, they do look very promising, especially keen to see how they stack up efficiency wise vs Apple Silicon.

 

[ZeroInfinite]

I’m really keen to see some 3rd party benchmarks for the Ryzen AI series, they do look very promising, especially keen to see how they stack up efficiency wise vs Apple Silicon.

Same here but I'm going to buy it either way. I'm hoping they have a 16 inch option as I do not want anything bigger than that. The edges of the screen on my Surface Book are turning yellow and my old PC (made by PC specialist back in 2013) died in 2023...

 

[SpyderTracks]

Same here but I'm going to buy it either way. I'm hoping they have a 16 inch option as I do not want anything bigger than that. The edges of the screen on my Surface Book are turning yellow and my old PC (made by PC specialist back in 2013) died in 2023...

16" is pretty standard now, I would expect IF PCS are going to stock the AI series (which I would expect they would as for a production machine for many uses, they'd be perfect with the AI acceleration), I would expect possibly a 14" for mobility and a 16" for standard use. 15" has largely been superceded, simply because bezels are so small these days, you can fit the same size old 15" screen with huge bezels into a modern 16" chassis without those bezels.

17" is definitely targeted at gamers I think, very unusual to find that size for work use.

I'm also really hoping to see some OLED display panels in premium options, that would be really nice.

 

[ZeroInfinite]

16" is pretty standard now, I would expect IF PCS are going to stock the AI series (which I would expect they would as for a production machine for many uses, they'd be perfect with the AI acceleration), I would expect possibly a 14" for mobility and a 16" for standard use. 15" has largely been superceded, simply because bezels are so small these days, you can fit the same size old 15" screen with huge bezels into a modern 16" chassis without those bezels.

17" is definitely targeted at gamers I think, very unusual to find that size for work use.

I'm also really hoping to see some OLED display panels in premium options, that would be really nice.

OLED panels would be a nice touch too with a decent refresh rate. I'm looking forward to April and their offerings. Very excited.

 

[ZeroInfinite]

Just to close this thread: AMD Ryzen 9 AI Max+ 395 will not be coming to PC Specialist.

 

[SpyderTracks]

Just to close this thread: AMD Ryzen 9 AI Max+ 395 will not be coming to PC Specialist.

That’s a real shame. Wonder if AMD have done exclusivity rights with certain manufacturers for this SOC

 

[ZeroInfinite]

I have no idea but it's a shame as that is what I've been advised by the sales team.

 

[Paul1964]

In my opinion, the Ryzen 9 AI Max+ 395 would not make sense being paired with a 5090.

This SOC boasts the most powerful iGPU ever seen in a CPU package and uses unified memory shared between the CPU and iGPU. It's meant to go into devices without a dedicated GPU.

It would be nice to see PCS offer something that fit this description - a thinish and lightish 'gaming' or workstation laptop would do well in my opinion.

 

[Clintster]

I have ordered the AMD Recoil 16 with the AMD Ryzen™ 9 9955HX3D 16-Core Processor and the Nvidia 5090 GPU along with 96gb of ram.

 

[Paul1964]

Wow! That will be one very fast beast!

 

[ZeroInfinite]

In my opinion, the Ryzen 9 AI Max+ 395 would not make sense being paired with a 5090.

This SOC boasts the most powerful iGPU ever seen in a CPU package and uses unified memory shared between the CPU and iGPU. It's meant to go into devices without a dedicated GPU.

It would be nice to see PCS offer something that fit this description - a thinish and lightish 'gaming' or workstation laptop would do well in my opinion.

That's what I was told.

 

[ZeroInfinite]

I have ordered the AMD Recoil 16 with the AMD Ryzen™ 9 9955HX3D 16-Core Processor and the Nvidia 5090 GPU along with 96gb of ram.

That's what I'm intending to order with 16TB NVME SSD. Do you know if that processor has a NPU?

 

[SpyderTracks]

In my opinion, the Ryzen 9 AI Max+ 395 would not make sense being paired with a 5090.

This SOC boasts the most powerful iGPU ever seen in a CPU package and uses unified memory shared between the CPU and iGPU. It's meant to go into devices without a dedicated GPU.

It would be nice to see PCS offer something that fit this description - a thinish and lightish 'gaming' or workstation laptop would do well in my opinion.

It’s an SOC (system on chip) same as Intel Core Ultra 200v on the X86 side, Snapdragon X Elite and Apple Silicon on the Arm side

The M4 far outperforms it on the GPU, NPU and CPU, but you’ll only see benchmarks against X86

When the M4 Ultra releases (which is 2x M4 Pro) it will likely destroy it

We compared AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ 395 to Apple's M4 Pro and the results might surprise you

The Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" is a powerful chip, there's no doubt, but recent benchmarks don't tell the whole story

www.laptopmag.com

 

[Paul1964]

It’s an SOC (system on chip) same as Intel Core Ultra 200v on the X86 side, Snapdragon X Elite and Apple Silicon on the Arm side

The M4 far outperforms it on the GPU, NPU and CPU, but you’ll only see benchmarks against X86

When the M4 Ultra releases (which is 2x M4 Pro) it will likely destroy it

We compared AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ 395 to Apple's M4 Pro and the results might surprise you

The Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" is a powerful chip, there's no doubt, but recent benchmarks don't tell the whole story

www.laptopmag.com

Yeah I was thinking of the X86 side of things. M4 Ultra would be 2 M4 Maxes stitched together, not M4 Pros though I'm retty sure that's what you meant to say.

Indeed, an M4 Ultra would run circles around it and point and laugh

 

[TonyCarter]

The M4 doesn't have the interconnect (the UltraFusion connection) that the M1-M3 had to expand to Max configs to Ultra config, so there's unlikely to ever be an M4 Ultra...and is also why the Ultra version of the new Mac Studio is the M3 Ultra.

Why there won’t ever be a super-fast Apple M4 Ultra processor

Explore why the M4 Ultra processor may never be launched. Seems Apple never intended to make the chip for its high-end desktops.

www.cultofmac.com

I want the single-core speed over the high core count, so the M4 is perfect for me as the M4 cores are around 25% faster than the M3 cores (and 2x faster than my current M1 Mac Studio). Of course, if you need 16 CPU / 40 GPU / 16 NPU cores then the only option is the dual-CPU M3 Ultra.

 

[Paul1964]

The M4 doesn't have the interconnect (the UltraFusion connection) that the M1-M3 had to expand to Max/Pro/Ultra configs, so there's unlikely to ever be an M4 Ultra...and is also why the Ultra version of the new Mac Studio is the M3 Ultra.

Why there won’t ever be a super-fast Apple M4 Ultra processor

Explore why the M4 Ultra processor may never be launched. Seems Apple never intended to make the chip for its high-end desktops.

www.cultofmac.com

I want the single-core speed over the high core count, so the M4 is perfect for me as the M4 cores are around 25% faster than the M3 cores (and 2x faster than my current M1 Mac Studio). Of course, if you need 16 CPU / 40 GPU / 16 NPU cores then the only option is the dual-CPU M3 Ultra.

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It was thought the M3 Max didn't have it either but here we are.