Beelink GTR9 Pro (Ryzen AI Max+ 395)

The Beelink GTR9 Pro is the same Ryzen AI Max+ 395 and 128GB you’ll find in cheaper boxes, dressed in a much nicer suit. Dual 10-gigabit networking, a full vapour chamber, a built-in power supply and a metal chassis that could pass for a Mac. It’s the premium take on Strix Halo - and on Beelink’s Western store, it’s priced like one.

The take

The build is the best of the Strix Halo bunch, and the pitch is clustering. Two 10GbE ports and dual USB4 mean you can lash several together into a little AI cluster, the cooling is a proper vapour chamber, and there’s a 230W supply built in so there’s no brick on the desk. All lovely. The problem is price. On Beelink’s own UK and US store the 128GB model sits north of four thousand, more than double what the near-identical GMKtec asks, and the same box goes for roughly 1,800 dollars in China. So the hardware’s great, but the value depends enormously on where and how you buy it. Go in with your eyes open.

What it’ll actually run

It runs exactly what any 128GB Strix Halo box runs, because it’s the same silicon. Hand most of the 128GB to the Radeon 8060S and a 70B at Q4 fits with context to spare, MoE models like gpt-oss-120b sit comfortably, and the everyday 8B to 32B range is quick. Beelink quotes a Qwen 32B at Q8 around 6 tokens a second in LM Studio, which is about right for a dense model at that precision. MoE models do far better.

The speed ceiling is bandwidth, same story as its siblings: near 256 GB/s on paper, lower in the real world, so dense large models answer at a measured pace. Worth knowing: owners found the 128GB memory can run in a throttled mode until you unlock it in the BIOS, so check your configuration. It’s Windows 11 out of the box, runs Linux well - owners report Ollama and the Lemonade server working nicely on Ubuntu - and it’s quiet, though reviewers note it isn’t silent when you push it to full power.

Who should buy it

Buy it if you want the nicest-built Strix Halo machine and you’ll actually use the fast networking. For clustering boxes or moving big models around a home lab, the dual 10GbE earns its keep. If you can get it near the China price, it’s a really nice bit of kit.

Think twice at the Western price. You’re paying a heavy premium over the GMKtec for the same chip and memory, so unless the build and the 10GbE matter to you specifically, the cheaper box loads the same models just as well. And if you need CUDA, no AMD machine is your answer. Great hardware, just buy it at the right price.