AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 Radeon 8060S (Strix Halo) vs Apple M5 Max

The M5 is the newer part: Apple M5, launched in 2026, against the Ryzen AI Max+ 395's RDNA 3.5 from 2025. Newer architectures typically add lower-precision formats and better throughput per watt, so check the precision rows your workload actually uses.

Dense throughput for the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 against the M5: FP32 30 vs 17 TFLOPS. Sparse figures, where the vendor publishes them, appear under each dense number in the performance table.

Memory is 128 GB against 128 GB, fed at 256 GB/s versus 614 GB/s. More memory per GPU means larger models fit before you have to shard across cards, which often matters more than raw TFLOPS for inference.

For LLM training and inference, weight the FP8 and FP16 rows and memory capacity most heavily. For scientific and HPC workloads, the FP64 row is the one to read.