AMD CEO LISA SU JUST QUIETLY KILLED $400/MONTH IN OPENAI AND CLAUDE CODE WITH ONE BOX RUNNING A 235B MODEL
amd's ryzen ai max 395 is the first x86 chip that runs a 200 billion parameter model on a single piece of silicon with 128gb of unified memory
the gmktec evo-x2 runs qwen3 235b fully, deepseek v3 comfortably and llama 3.3 70b with headroom. on linux you get 110gb of usable vram out of 128gb
amd claimed the chip beat an nvidia rtx 5080 by more than 3x on deepseek r1 inference. a lunchbox sized pc outrunning a $1,000 discrete gpu on a real ai workload
a heavy ai user pays $200 for claude code max, $200 for chatgpt pro, $20 for cursor and $20 for gemini. that's $5,280 a year and the box pays itself off in 9 to 10 months
ollama installs in one command and claude code points at localhost so nothing leaves the machine and nothing costs per request
bookmark this and read the article below