A power monster combining Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 and 128 GB DDR5 in a volume of barely one liter!
Ever since AMD launched the Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 processor mid-year, machine builders have been redoubling their ingenuity to make the most of the remarkable assets of this racing beast. Just think, with its 16 CPU cores in Zen 5 architecture and 40 GPU computing units in RDNA 3.5 architecture, it's not afraid of any task or scenario. To complete the picture, AMD has added an NPU capable of delivering up to 50 TOPS, and PC manufacturers have understood: they're turning it into a chip dedicated to artificial intelligence, often accompanied by 64, 96 or even 128 GB of RAM. This is the approach adopted by Chinese manufacturer FEVM.
All the essential information about the FEVM FAEX1 © FEVM
The FAEX1 is the first PC designed by FEVM to run the Ryzen AI MAX+ 395, and it seems to be doing things rather well. In fact, it's quite simply the smallest PC to feature this processor, with absolutely ridiculous dimensions: 220 millimeters long, 133 mm wide and barely 35 mm thick. FEVM is thus able to boast a volume of barely one liter for a machine that's frighteningly powerful. Its CPU has little to envy the most powerful Ryzen 9 9950X and Ryzen 9 9950X3D, while its GPU is sometimes put up against dedicated graphics cards such as the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti and GeForce RTX 4070. Better than these two cards, however, it is capable of allocating up to 96 GB of its RAM to video memory (in the case of a configuration supplied with 128 GB of DDR5).
Last but not least, FEVM has taken care of the connectivity of its little prodigy: 1x OCuLink, 2x USB4, 2x USB 3.2 Type-A, 1x DisplayPort 2.0, 1x HDMI 2.1, 1x 3.5 mm audio, 1x SD 4.0 card reader, 1x Ethernet 2.5 GbE and 1x Ethernet 10 GbE. It's fair to say that not much is missing! The question that remains is, of course, the price and actual availability of a machine that is already being distributed in China, but which is struggling to make inroads in Europe in particular.
