Minisforum's MS-S1 MAX-P495 AI workstation packs 192GB unified memory at $7,399
Minisforum has opened pre-orders for the MS-S1 MAX-P495, a 3.5-liter workstation built on AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495, offered in a single configuration with 192GB of unified memory and a 2TB SSD at $7,399 (listed at $9,249), with shipping expected in mid-October 2026. The processor change over the MS-S1 MAX launched a year ago is modest: still 16 Zen 5 cores and 32 threads, boost clock up 100 MHz to 5.2 GHz, and the NPU rising from 50 to 55 TOPS (about 10%) for a 131 TOPS platform total; the real upgrade is memory, with LPDDR5X growing from 128GB to 192GB, up to 160GB of it assignable to the GPU, and rated speed going from 8,000 to 8,533 MT/s. Minisforum says one unit ran 284B-parameter DeepSeek V4 Flash at Q4 quantization at roughly 12 tokens/s, two linked units ran Qwen3.5-397B at about 16 tokens/s, and a four-system cluster loaded a 380GB Q4_0 build of DeepSeek-R1 671B without a stated speed; all are mixture-of-experts models activating roughly 13B and 17B parameters per token.
For small teams that need 200B-to-300B-parameter mixture-of-experts models kept on premises for privacy or latency, one compact box can now hold models that previously required two.
- Minisforum's MS-S1 MAX-P495 is on pre-order at $7,399 with 192GB of unified memory and a 2TB SSD
- CPU and NPU specs are similar to previous iterations: 16 cores, 32 threads with a boost in clock speeds of 100 MHz, in addition to increased NPU performance by 10% to 55 TOPS
- The real upgrade is memory: 192GB total, 160GB for the GPU, and about 7% more bandwidth, enough to fit a 284B-parameter MoE model on one box
Minisforum has opened orders for the MS-S1 MAX-P495, a 3.5-liter workstation built around AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495, and its launch announcement leads with the processor: 16 Zen 5 cores and 32 threads, clocks of up to 5.2 GHz, and an NPU rated at up to 55 TOPS within a platform total of 131 TOPS.
The single configuration pairs 192GB of unified memory with a 2TB SSD, sells for $7,399 on pre-order, and is expected to begin shipping in mid-October 2026.
Those processor figures match AMD's own specification page; however, they are also the least consequential change in the machine: what actually separates the P495 from the MS-S1 MAX that Minisforum launched a year ago is the memory.
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