A new leak of the Ryzen AI MAX 495 is enough to reheat the race for high-end laptop APUs. If the specs are accurate, AMD is preparing a chip that can push the unified memory ceiling to 192GB, paired with a Radeon 8065S integrated GPU and CPU performance about 10% ahead of the Ryzen AI MAX+ PRO 395 in PassMark. This is not just a story about a few extra MHz or a renamed product. It signals that APU-based workstation laptops and gaming laptops are entering a new round of competition. For anyone interested in local AI or content creation, the shift is worth watching. If it launches with the configuration now surfacing, the Ryzen AI MAX 495 will be hard to ignore among high-performance laptops.
Ryzen AI MAX 495 reveals AMD's ambition to raise the memory and performance ceiling for laptop APUs
According to a leak reported by WCCFTech, a Ryzen AI MAX+ PRO 495 was spotted on a test system with an HP motherboard, a 2TB SSD, and a 2560 x 1600 display running at 120Hz. The listing also shows the machine detecting roughly 188GB of usable RAM, which suggests the actual configuration is most likely 192GB. That is considerably more than the 128GB tied to Strix Halo, and it is a meaningful difference if AMD wants to target people running local AI or handling heavy projects on a mobile machine. The 192GB figure is also what makes the Ryzen AI MAX 495 stand out from the rest of today's APU lineup.
Data from PassMark shows the chip scoring 4,293 in single-thread and 57,525 in multi-thread, about 5% and 10% higher than the Ryzen AI MAX+ PRO 395, respectively. The CPU is said to still use 16 Zen 5 cores and 32 threads, while the integrated GPU moves to the Radeon 8065S. The GPU's 3D score is 18,427, only slightly ahead of the Radeon 8060S, so the 495's main advantage appears to lie in clock speeds and memory capacity rather than a big leap in graphics.
For real-world users, the extra 64GB of memory matters far more than a small bump in benchmark scores. With unified memory, the larger pool of RAM can be allocated to the GPU or to local AI models, making tasks like running large LLMs, rendering heavy scenes, or keeping many projects open at once less of a struggle.
The leak shows APU-based gaming laptops and workstations are heating up
What stands out is that the Ryzen AI MAX 495 does not look like a minor upgrade made for the sake of it. It shows AMD expanding on the direction first seen with the Ryzen AI MAX 395, but pushing both CPU performance and memory capacity higher. If Strix Halo got many brands rethinking high-end APUs, Gorgon Halo could be the next step in making thinner laptops or more compact mobile workstations worthwhile options.
The table below summarizes the most notable specs of this chip.
| Item | Leaked information |
| CPU | 16 cores, 32 threads, Zen 5 |
| Max clock speed | Up to 5.2GHz according to the leaked lineup table |
| Cache | 16MB L2 and 64MB L3 |
| Integrated GPU | Radeon 8065S, most likely still 40 CU RDNA 3.5 |
| System memory | Up to 192GB on the leaked test system |
| CPU performance | 57,525 multi-thread and 4,293 single-thread in PassMark |
| Power consumption | The Gorgon Halo family is rumored to fall in the 45-120W range |
From a market perspective, this approach differs from machines that still lean heavily on discrete GPUs, such as the Framework Laptop 16. Laptops with an RTX 5070 still have a clear edge in AAA games and in software heavily optimized for CUDA, but an APU like the Ryzen AI MAX 495 is appealing because it packs the CPU, GPU, and a large pool of memory into a more compact platform, with fewer trade-offs in thickness, heat, and battery life when the machine is not under constant heavy load.
This is still leaked data, and the Ryzen AI MAX 400 Gorgon Halo family may not launch until late 2026 or early 2027. But the mere fact that a 192GB RAM configuration has started to surface suggests AMD no longer treats high-end laptop APUs as a niche segment. If this memory ceiling holds when the product reaches store shelves, the contest between gaming laptops and mobile workstations will get even livelier. In that picture, the Ryzen AI MAX 495 could become an important card for AMD in the high-end segment.
