Beelink GTR9 Pro (Ryzen AI Max+ 395)

The Beelink GTR9 Pro is the same Ryzen AI Max+ 395 and 128GB you’ll find in cheaper boxes, dressed in a much nicer suit. Dual 10-gigabit networking, a full vapour chamber, a built-in power supply and a metal chassis that could pass for a Mac. It’s the premium take on Strix Halo - and after a 2026 price reshuffle, it’s no longer the pricey one: it now ships around $1,999 while a memory shortage pushed the once-cheaper GMKtec above it.

The take

The build is the best of the Strix Halo bunch, and the pitch is clustering. Two 10GbE ports and dual USB4 mean you can lash several together into a little AI cluster, the cooling is a proper vapour chamber, and there’s a 230W supply built in so there’s no brick on the desk. All lovely, and now the price cooperates too. The GTR9 Pro launched at a steep Western premium, north of four thousand for the 128GB model, more than double what the GMKtec then asked. That has flipped: it now ships around $1,999, while the 2026 memory shortage pushed the GMKtec’s 128GB SKU up to $3,400-3,650. So the box that used to be the dear one is, for now, the cheaper of the two, and it’s the one with the better build and the dual 10GbE. Prices in this corner move fast, so check both on the day, but as things stand the Beelink is the one to beat.

What it’ll actually run

It runs exactly what any 128GB Strix Halo box runs, because it’s the same silicon. Hand most of the 128GB to the Radeon 8060S and a 70B at Q4 fits with context to spare, MoE models like gpt-oss-120b sit comfortably, and the everyday 8B to 32B range is quick. Beelink quotes a Qwen 32B at Q8 around 6 tokens a second in LM Studio, which is about right for a dense model at that precision. MoE models do far better.

The speed ceiling is bandwidth, same story as its siblings: near 256 GB/s on paper, lower in the real world, so dense large models answer at a measured pace. Worth knowing: owners found the 128GB memory can run in a throttled mode until you unlock it in the BIOS, so check your configuration. It’s Windows 11 out of the box, runs Linux well - owners report Ollama and the Lemonade server working nicely on Ubuntu - and it’s quiet, though reviewers note it isn’t silent when you push it to full power.

Who should buy it

Buy it if you want the nicest-built Strix Halo machine, and doubly so now the price has fallen into line. For clustering boxes or moving big models around a home lab the dual 10GbE earns its keep, and at around $1,999 you get the premium build and the networking for less than the plainer GMKtec currently costs. As things stand it’s the pick of the 128GB Strix Halo boxes.

The caveats are smaller than they were. Prices in this corner move fast, so confirm the GMKtec hasn’t dropped back below it on a sale before you commit. And if you need CUDA, no AMD machine is your answer - a GB10 box like the DGX Spark is the Nvidia route to big unified memory. Great hardware, and now at a fair price.