GMKtec EVO-X3

Positioning

Judge the EVO-X3 on what the extra money buys, because the silicon has not changed: this is the same Ryzen AI Max+ 395 and 128 GB of LPDDR5X-8000 as the EVO-X2, now at $3,600 — double that machine's launch price for the identical memory/storage configuration. That delta is the memory supply crunch showing up on a price tag, not added performance. What is genuinely new is the OCuLink Gen4 x4 port, and it matters: it is the cleanest path in this class to bolt on a discrete GPU for prefill-heavy work, the exact scenario where StorageReview measured this silicon trailing the DGX Spark by up to 8.8x. Against AMD's own Ryzen AI Halo at $3,999, the EVO-X3 is $400 cheaper and adds OCuLink, but gives up 10GbE (2.5GbE here), the first-party dual-OS developer images, and Micro Center-backed support — for most US buyers the Halo is the safer spend. A used M2 Ultra Mac Studio remains the bandwidth play at 800 GB/s versus 256 GB/s; decode speed on large dense models will favor it decisively, though you lose x86, ROCm, and the eGPU option. Buy the EVO-X3 if you specifically want OCuLink expansion or cannot reach a Micro Center. Skip it if you can still find EVO-X2 stock near its original price — it is the same computer — or if $3,600 feels like Spark-adjacent money, since base Spark-class systems sell near $4,000.