AMD’s next generation flagship Halo APU can’t be hidden at all! The latest news shows that the full specifications and measured running scores of Ryzen AI MAX+495, codenamed Gorgon Halo, have appeared in the PassMark database. It belongs to the AMD Ryzen AI MAX400 series and is the orthodox replacement product of the current Strix Halo flagship APU. What is exposed this time is the PRO commercial model, and the core specifications are exactly the same as the consumer version.
Players who are familiar with AMD product lines know that the Halo series is a full-blooded version of conventional mobile SoCs. This time Gorgon Halo adopts the same architecture as the already launched Gorgon Point Ruilong AI 400 series. The core size, graphics card performance, and memory limit are fully expanded, completely replicating the upgrade logic from Strix Point to Strix Halo.
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In terms of core specifications, This flagship U uses a 16-core 32-thread Zen5 architecture . The cache specifications remain unchanged at 16MB L2 + 64MB L3, and the core frequency is slightly optimized compared to the previous generation. According to PassMark’s measured data, the single-core score is 4293 points, and the multi-core score has reached 57525 points. Compared with the previous generation flagship Ryzen AI MAX+ PRO 395, single-core performance increased by 5%, and multi-core performance increased by 10%.
The core display part, is replaced with the new Radeon 8065S. This core display follows the RDNA3.5 architecture. The scale of 40 computing units has not changed. The core is to increase the operating frequency. It is an official frequency-increasing optimized version of the previous generation 8060S. The measured 2D running score is 1232 points, and the 3D running score is 18427 points. The overall performance is at the same level as the previous generation, which is enough to meet the needs of mainstream games and professional creation.
The obvious upgrade point this time is memory support. The exposed test platform is directly equipped with 192GB of memory, which far exceeds the 128GB capacity limit of the previous generation Strix Halo. According to AMD's video memory allocation mechanism, it can allocate up to 87.5% of the system memory to the GPU, which is 168GB of dedicated video memory.
In terms of release rhythm, the standard version of the Ryzen AI 400 Gorgon series SoC has been officially launched. This Gorgon Halo flagship series, is expected to be officially released at the end of this year to early next year . If nothing else, AMD will release more core information about this flagship APU at the Computex 2026 Taipei Computer Show in June.
