AMD Ryzen AI Max 385 Radeon 8050S (Strix Halo)

The Ryzen AI Max 385 is the affordable way into Strix Halo, and for local model work it gives up less than the specification sheet suggests. It keeps the whole point of the platform, the 256-bit LPDDR5X controller with 128 GB of unified memory at 256 GB/s, and cuts the parts that matter less: 32 RDNA 3.5 compute units instead of 40, and an 8-core Zen 5 CPU instead of 16. Since inference on these machines is bound by memory bandwidth rather than shader throughput, the roughly 23 percent gap in graphics compute is smaller in practice than it looks. The 50 TOPS XDNA 2 neural processor is identical to the flagship's. As with every Strix Halo part, AMD publishes no graphics throughput figure, so the FP32 number here is computed on AMD's own arithmetic rather than quoted from a datasheet.