Running massive AI models has usually meant relying on the cloud or building a hefty rig. Chuwi’s newest mini PC squeezes that kind of power into a box small enough to sit on your desk.
At IFA Berlin 2026, the company unveiled the UniBox AI495 Pro, a mini workstation built around AMD’s flagship Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 chip, codenamed Gorgon Halo. AMD first teased this processor back in May 2026, and now Chuwi is putting it to work.
What makes the UniBox AI495 pro so powerful?
The headline feature is memory. Chuwi has packed 192GB of unified LPDDR5x-8533 memory with 273GB/s of bandwidth, and up to 160GB of it can be allocated as VRAM. That’s enough to run local AI models with up to 300 billion parameters at 4-bit quantization, right on your desk, without sending a single prompt to the cloud.
Under the hood, you get a Zen 5-based chip with 16 cores and 32 threads, boosting up to 5.2GHz, paired with a 40-core Radeon 8065S GPU that Chuwi claims can outperform an RTX 4060 for 1080p gaming. On the AI side, the machine offers up to 131 TOPS of total compute, including 55 TOPS from its XDNA 2 NPU, which meets Microsoft’s Copilot+ PC standard.
Despite all that hardware, the UniBox AI495 Pro stays compact at just 209.6 x 209.6 x 67mm, or about 2.9 liters in volume. While Chuwi is not the first one to do this, packing this much memory and AI compute into a 2.9 liter box is still a serious flex. You also get a 2TB SSD, three M.2 PCIe ×4 slots for expansion, dual 10Gbps Ethernet ports, an OCuLink port, and dual USB4 ports rated for 40Gbps.
A more affordable UniBox option
Alongside the Pro, Chuwi is also launching the UniBox AI395, which swaps in AMD’s Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (Strix Halo) chip. It tops out at 128GB of memory with up to 96GB allocatable as VRAM, and it can handle local models up to 235 billion parameters using MoE and low-bit quantization. Both machines run Windows 11 Pro and share the same 240W charger, Wi-Fi 7, and Bluetooth 5.4.
Chuwi hasn’t announced pricing or availability for either model yet, so if a personal AI workstation is on your wish list, you’ll have to wait a bit longer to see what it’ll cost you.
