Beelink GTR9 Pro (Ryzen AI Max+ 395, 128GB, Dual 10GbE)

The GTR9 Pro is Beelink's attempt to turn AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ 395 into a serious small-form-factor workstation, and on paper it is one of the more ambitious mini PCs anyone has shipped. Sixteen Zen 5 cores, a 40-CU Radeon 8060S, 128GB of LPDDR5X-8000 acting as a single unified pool, an XDNA 2 NPU and — unusually for this class — two 10GbE ports plus Wi-Fi 7. That networking choice tells you who Beelink thinks the buyer is: someone parking this next to a NAS or a lab switch rather than under a TV.

The audience here is narrow but real. If you want to run local LLMs, do GPU-accelerated content work, or consolidate a homelab node into something the size of a thick paperback, the large unified memory pool is the headline feature, because it lets models sit in memory that a discrete GPU of similar cost simply wouldn't offer. Multi-display users are served too, with up to four 8K/60 outputs across HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 2.1 and USB4. Gamers and general desktop users, on the other hand, are paying a heavy premium for capabilities they'll never touch.

Our assessment is that the hardware is more convincing than the product around it. ServeTheHome came away pleasantly surprised and reckons it should make anyone eyeing a Framework Desktop for Windows 11 Pro think twice — but the same review flags software and firmware that still needs cleaning up, and that matches other reports of lagging firmware affecting power tuning, drivers and stability. On a 140W design where tuning headroom matters, immature firmware isn't a footnote; it's the difference between the chip performing as advertised and not.

The AI story also deserves cooling off. Cited local-inference results swing from around 7 tokens/s on a dense 70B model to between 31 and 100 tokens/s on sparse MoE models. That spread means marketing framed around 120B-capable tells you almost nothing useful — model architecture, not the box, decides whether the experience is pleasant or painful. Buy it for the memory capacity, and set expectations by the models you actually intend to run.

Then there is the price. At $4,349 direct (down from $4,699, with free shipping, a 30-day trial and a 3-year warranty on Beelink's own store), this sits well above the roughly $1,999-or-less that ServeTheHome says these 395 + 128GB systems often go for. The extra buys the dual 10GbE, the 2TB SSD and the rest of the package, but it's a real premium, and The Desk Brief's conclusion — enthusiast purchase rather than automatic bargain — is the fair reading. Unresolved first-revision Ethernet reports mean board revision genuinely belongs in your buying decision, and warranty terms appear inconsistent between sources, which is not what you want to be guessing about at this price.

Four stars would be easy if the firmware were settled and the price were closer to street rates for comparable configurations. As things stand this is an impressive, slightly unfinished machine for buyers who know exactly why they need 128GB of unified memory and two 10GbE ports, and who are comfortable checking revisions before ordering. Everyone else should wait for the software to mature or shop the cheaper 395 systems.