Can a Strix Halo Corsair AI Workstation 300, 64GB run local LLMs?
Yes — 27 of the 39 open models on this site fit in its 48 GB of usable memory, the strongest being Qwen3.8 27B. Whether that saves you money is a different question, and the answer is usually no.
Price$1,700
Memory64 GB, about 48 GB of it addressable by the GPU at 256 GB/s
Best model it runsQwen3.8 27B — Sonnet-class, 10 tok/s
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Run the numbers on this machine
What it runs
| Model | Speed | Class | Good at | Memory |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 27BQ4_K_M | 10 tok/s | Sonnet-class | 19 GB | |
| Qwen3.6 27BQ4_K_M | 10 tok/s | Haiku-class | 19 GB | |
| Qwen3.6 35B-A3BQ4_K_M | 56 tok/s | Haiku-class | 23 GB | |
| Muse Glimmer 30BQ4_K_M | 11 tok/s | Haiku-class | 18 GB | |
| Gemma 4 26B-A4BQ4_K_M | 41 tok/s | Haiku-class | 18 GB | |
| Gemma 4 31B itQ4_K_M | 7.4 tok/s | Haiku-class | 26 GB | |
| Granite 4.2 30BQ4_K_M | 7.3 tok/s | Haiku-class | 26 GB | |
| GLM-4.7-FlashQ4_K_M | 40 tok/s | Haiku-class | 20 GB | |
| Gemma 4 12BQ4_K_M | 24 tok/s | Below every hosted tier | 8.0 GB | |
| Qwen3.5 9BQ4_K_M | 28 tok/s | Below every hosted tier | 6.8 GB | |
| Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3BQ4_K_M | 54 tok/s | Below every hosted tier | 26 GB | |
| MiniCPM5 2BQ4_K_M | 65 tok/s | Below every hosted tier | 3.0 GB |
15 more fit; the calculator lists them all.
The specifics
- Chip
- Corsair AI Workstation 300 — Ryzen AI Max 385 · Radeon 8050S, 32 CU
- Memory bandwidth
- 256 GB/s
- Usable by the GPU
- 48 GB — Windows lets you dedicate up to 75% of RAM to the GPU; Corsair lists up to 48 GB VRAM for this configuration. Measured GPU bandwidth on Strix Halo is ~212-215 GB/s of the 256 GB/s theoretical, so estimates here run a little high.
- Power under load
- 133 W (stand in) — No measurement for the Max 385 system; stand-in is the Max+ 395 Framework board's measured 133 W, which likely overstates this smaller GPU.
- Availability
- Corsair's price on 2026-09-16, out of stock. This tier uses the smaller Ryzen AI Max 385.
- Sources
- source 1, source 2, source 3