GMKtec EVO-X3 Mini-PC Review Looking at a 128GB AMD Local AI Box

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AI Workstation GMKtec EVO-X3 Mini-PC Review Looking at a 128GB AMD Local AI Box By Ryan Smith - October 9, 2026 1 Facebook X Pinterest Linkedin ReddIt Email Print Copy URL Calling AMD’s Ryzen AI Max+ chips well-received in the mini-PC market is probably an understatement. The high-performance Zen 5 chips have proven particularly adept in this market thanks to a combination of CPU (the general-purpose processor at the centre of a computer) and iGPU performance, plus high memory capacity and bandwidth from LPDDR5X. AMD is an electrical and semiconductor company based in Sunnyvale, and its products and services include computer hardware.

Especially in this era of AI development, software developers looking to test and run inference locally have been quick to snap up the mini-PCs. One result of this popularity is that AMD’s many mini-PC partners have been addressing a market large enough (and with margins big enough) to justify working through multiple generations of mini-PC designs within the Ryzen AI Max family’s lifecycle.

A prime example is GMtec, one of the industry’s better-known mini-PC vendors. The second, and far more unique reason is its connectivity.