GMKtec EVO-X5 Pro

What it is

GMKtec’s first Gorgon Halo mini. 16 Zen 5 cores, Radeon 8065S (40 RDNA 3.5 CUs), 192GB onboard LPDDR5X-8533 with up to 160GB allocatable as graphics memory, three M.2 2280, Windows 11 Pro, dual 10GbE, USB4 V2. Chassis is roughly 80 × 195 × 221 mm, about 2.5 kg, vapor chamber plus three fans, 330W Lite-On brick. Same 495 silicon class as other 192GB Halo cubes. Not the EVO-X2 / EVO-X3 Max+ 395 machine.

Who it is for

People who already decided 128GB is the wall and will pay roughly double an X2 to get 192GB in a sealed GMKtec box with dual 10GbE and DASH. Wrong if you need CUDA, if you want to open the machine later, or if you thought “320B locally” meant a usable dense 320B at speed.

What it actually runs

• Comfortable: 24B–70B dense on the iGPU, same job as the 128GB Halo cubes, with more room for context and concurrent agents.
• Possible: larger dense and MoE working sets that simply do not fit in 128GB. Vendor copy says up to 320B-class offline; that is a quantized capacity claim, not a token-rate claim. Memory bandwidth is still the limiter.
• Not the win: training, CUDA-only stacks, or beating a discrete 32GB card on models that already fit. Ignore 320B slides.

Standout details

• Price snapshot 9 Oct 2026, GMKtec US store: 192GB + 2TB $6,799; 192GB + 4TB $7,099. The $6,599 / $6,899 early-bird prices have ended. Store notes the first 100 units sold out; orders placed after Sept 29 are listed to ship Oct 9, in the order received.
• Memory is soldered 192GB only. No 128GB SKU on this page. No upgrade path.
• GMKtec does not publish a bandwidth figure. ACEMAGIC’s F9A spec sheet lists the same 495 chip at up to 256 GB/s; 256-bit LPDDR5X-8533 works out to ~273 GB/s theoretical. Either way it is at most a small step over the Max+ 395’s ~256 GB/s. Capacity is the product. Decode is not.
• Dual 10GbE with AMD DASH, dTPM 2.0, fingerprint reader, 2× USB4 V2 (80 Gbps) + 2× USB4. Triple M.2 2280 (vendor max 24TB; one slot is the short straw on lanes).
• Same one-year warranty as the rest of the line. 24/7 copy is marketing, not a measured duty cycle here.

Honest verdict

Buy the EVO-X5 Pro if you specifically want 192GB in a GMKtec chassis and the ~$6,800–$7,100 ticket is acceptable. You are paying for capacity over the EVO-X2, not a new architecture. Bandwidth is still Halo-class. If you want CUDA, shop Spark / GX10. The next 495 cube in the queue is ACEMAGIC F9A.