Four mini PCs with AMD’s Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 and 192GB of memory can be ordered in the US today. They share the same chip, the same 192GB of LPDDR5X-8533 and the same 160GB VRAM ceiling, so the differences are everything around the chip: when it ships, how it connects, how much storage it takes, how it is managed and what it costs. On those points, the GMKtec EVO-X5 Pro is the one we would pick right now.
👉 Click here to buy it nowGMKtec EVO-X5 Pro, 192GB / 2TB, $6,799 on GMKtec's US store (October 10, 2026)
The PRO 495 mini PCs you can order today
| GMKtec EVO-X5 Pro | ACEMAGIC F9A | Minisforum MS-S1 Max-P495 | Framework Desktop PRO 495 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price, 192GB | $6,799 (2TB) | $6,499 (2TB) | $7,399 (2TB) | $6,799 (DIY Edition) |
| Ships | Now (orders ship from Oct 9) | Late October (pre-order) | Mid October | November (pre-order) |
| Ethernet | 2 × 10GbE | 2 × 2.5GbE | 2 × 10GbE | 5GbE |
| Fastest USB | 2 × USB4 V2 80Gbps + 2 × USB4 40Gbps | 2 × USB4 40Gbps | 2 × USB4 V2 80Gbps + 2 × USB4 40Gbps | 2 × USB4 40Gbps |
| M.2 SSD slots | 3 (up to 24TB) | 2 | 2 (up to 16TB) | 2 |
| AMD DASH + dTPM 2.0 | Yes | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed |
| eGPU | USB4 V2 | OCuLink + USB4 | USB4 V2 | PCIe x4 slot |
Prices and ship dates were checked on each brand’s US store on October 10, 2026. “Not listed” means the brand’s product page does not mention the feature.
1. You can get it now
GMKtec’s store says the first 100 units sold out, and that orders placed after September 29 ship from October 9. The ACEMAGIC F9A is a pre-order for late October, and Framework’s PRO 495 ships in November. If you need 192GB on your desk this month, the EVO-X5 Pro is the safest bet.
2. $600 less than the Minisforum with the same connectivity
The Minisforum MS-S1 Max-P495 is the EVO-X5 Pro’s closest rival on paper: two 10GbE ports, two USB4 V2 ports and two USB4 ports. It costs $7,399 for 192GB and 2TB. The EVO-X5 Pro gives you the same port classes for $6,799, and adds a third SSD slot and DASH.
3. Two 10GbE ports, four times the ACEMAGIC’s speed
Both RJ45 ports run at 10 gigabits. The ACEMAGIC F9A has two 2.5GbE ports. This matters more than it seems: when you split a model too big for one machine across two, the boxes talk over Ethernet, and AMD’s own guide for clustering two Ryzen AI Max machines with llama.cpp uses 10GbE. It also cuts copying a 150GB model from a NAS from about ten minutes at 2.5GbE to about two and a half.
4. USB4 V2 at 80Gbps, front and back
The rear has two USB4 V2 ports at 80Gbps, and the front has two more USB4 ports at 40Gbps. That is double the bandwidth of the F9A’s USB4 for fast external SSDs, high-resolution displays or a USB4 V2 graphics enclosure. There is also HDMI 2.1 rated for 8K at 60Hz, two USB 3.2 Gen 2, two USB 2.0 and a 3.5mm jack.
🚀 Click here to buy it nowShips now from GMKtec's store
5. Three SSD slots, up to 24TB
The EVO-X5 Pro takes three M.2 2280 drives of up to 8TB each: two at PCIe 4.0 x4 and one at PCIe 4.0 x1. The ACEMAGIC F9A has two slots, and the Minisforum has two (one of them also x1) for 16TB. Large models eat storage fast; a few 100B-plus models at 4-bit plus their full-precision originals can fill 2TB in an afternoon.
6. AMD DASH: manage it even when Windows is down
One of the 10GbE ports supports AMD DASH, out-of-band management that works with the operating system crashed or the PC turned off: remote power, BIOS settings, re-imaging. GMKtec’s own page points out that “not every AI Max+ PRO 495 PC comes with AMD DASH”, and neither ACEMAGIC’s nor Minisforum’s product page mentions it. For an office or a lab running several machines, this is the feature that saves trips to the server closet.
7. Discrete TPM 2.0 and a fingerprint power button
The EVO-X5 Pro adds a discrete TPM 2.0 chip for hardware-based encryption and a match-on-chip fingerprint reader in the power button. A box that holds your private models and data on-premises should be hard for anyone else to log into.
8. Built for clusters, up to a 2U rack
GMKtec designs the EVO-X5 Pro to run as a dual-unit cluster or in a 2U rack, and its store takes $100 off two units ($250 off five). Two of them give you 384GB of memory, enough to split models that do not fit in one machine’s 160GB of VRAM.
9. GMKtec publishes real model speeds
GMKtec published a table of local LLM results from its lab, with model size, generation speed, prompt processing and time to first token. Some highlights from that table: Qwen3.6-35B-A3B at about 80 tokens per second, Qwen3.8-Flash-Next at 45 tokens per second in a 93GB FP4 build, and DeepSeek-V4-Flash (144GB at 4-bit) at about 18 tokens per second. These are the brand’s numbers, not ours, but they are the most complete set any PRO 495 maker has published, and they show the realistic use for 192GB: large mixture-of-experts models at interactive speed. On CPU, GMKtec reports 34,742 in Cinebench R23 multi-core against 29,630 for the PRO 395.
10. Serious cooling, a warranty that covers the parts, no import fees
A vapor chamber with three fans and three power modes cools the chip, and GMKtec says the platform is validated for 24/7 operation. The warranty is one year on the whole unit plus two years of replacement coverage for the RAM, SSD and power adapter, and US orders ship with no import fees. The design took two “Best of IFA 2026” awards in Berlin.
Where the EVO-X5 Pro does not win
A fair comparison has to include the other side:
- It is not the cheapest. The ACEMAGIC F9A costs $300 less at $6,499, and it has an OCuLink port for a desktop graphics card, which the EVO-X5 Pro does not. ACEMAGIC also offers a 30-day money-back guarantee; GMKtec offers 7-day returns.
- The price went up. The EVO-X5 Pro opened at $6,399 on September 28 and now sells at its $6,799 regular price. See our EVO-X5 Pro price report.
- The chip is the same everywhere. Memory bandwidth is about 273GB/s on every PRO 495, and GMKtec’s own chart shows Geekbench 6 multi-core at 20,213 for the PRO 495 against 20,758 for the 395. You pay for 192GB, not for speed.
- It is a lot of money for most people. If your models fit in 128GB, a Ryzen AI Max+ 395 mini PC costs less than half as much. We explain the math in why the PRO 495 is not worth it for most buyers.
Who should buy the GMKtec EVO-X5 Pro
Buy the EVO-X5 Pro if you have already decided you need 192GB in one box: to run 100B to 300B-class mixture-of-experts models with long contexts, to keep sensitive data off the cloud, or to build a small on-premises cluster. Among the PRO 495 machines you can order today, it is the one that ships soonest with 10GbE, USB4 V2, three SSD slots and remote management, and it costs $600 less than the Minisforum that matches its ports.
✅ Click here to buy it nowOfficial GMKtec store, price checked October 10, 2026
For the full spec background, see our EVO-X5 Pro launch coverage and the rival ACEMAGIC F9A PRO 495.