AMD has launched Microsoft's Project Zenith on its Ryzen AI Halo developer platform, powered by the Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 processor. This mini PC features 16 Zen 5 cores, 40 RDNA 3.5 compute units, and an XDNA 2 NPU delivering 55 TOPS for advanced AI workloads.
The platform supports 192GB of LPDDR5X memory with 273 GB/s bandwidth, allowing 160GB for the GPU to run models with 300 billion parameters. It includes a preconfigured Windows 11 environment with Visual Studio Code, Git, Python, .NET, and the Windows Subsystem for Linux.
Micro Center lists the 192GB Linux model at $7,299.99, while the 128GB version costs $3,999.99. Current Windows owners can use the open-source Windows Developer Config project to replicate the Zenith environment, which also supports AMD's ROCm and PyTorch playbooks.