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FTA (emphasis mine):

"All of the AI Max chips have a 55W base TDP, but also a configurable TDP that ranges from 45 to 120W to unleash more horsepower in designs that can handle the thermal output."



Like a SFF desktop with a big 140mm fan on top. Here's hoping.


Yeah. I'd love to have one of these in mini-ITX or micro-ATX form.

I wonder if at this point, NVMe further becomes a bottlenecking factor?


Seems unlikely, at least for any normal use case. PCIe 5.0 (the current standard that is widely shipping) has 16GB/sec in each direction (32GB/sec total) with a x4 connection.

Doubly so that for the last decade or so memory sizes haven't increases. Seems like the vast majority of machines these days are 8-16GB ram and have a max of 64GB ram unless you are buying workstation parts.

How many times a second do you need to load 100% of ram from storage?

At least the strix halo supports 128GB of ram.




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