The CPU Performance Of The NVIDIA GB10 With The Dell Pro Max vs. AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo"

Written by Michael Larabel in Processors on 21 January 2026 at 11:22 AM EST. Page 6 of 6. 6 Comments.

In total I ran 121 benchmarks on both the Dell Pro Max GB10 and Framework Desktop in evaluating the performance of the twenty Arm corex (10 x Cortex-X925 and 10 x Cortex-A725) up against the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 with its 16 x Zen 5 cores. Across that very wide mix of different workloads, the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 CPU performance was around 1.285x that of the GB10's CPU cores. Again, strictly and intently as a CPU comparison with foregoing GPU benchmarks in this article.

While the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 was faster overall, the Framework Desktop was consuming more power than the Dell Pro Max GB10. On average the Framework Desktop over this entire span of CPU benchmarks saw an average wall power reading of 133 Watts with a recorded peak of 227 Watts. The Dell Pro Max GB10 meanwhile had a 103 Watt average with a recorded 164 Watt peak for all of these benchmarks. So while the Framework Desktop performance geo mean was at 1.285x, the total system power consumption was 1.29x higher on average and the peak was 1.38x.

If you are investing in the Dell Pro Max GB10 or any other GB10 platform, chances are though you are running AI workloads and other software fully engaging both the CPU and GPU. The Blackwell GPU with the GB10 offers a lot more compute potential over the Radeon 8060S graphics but similarly the Dell Pro Max GB10 pricing is around $4139 USD as of writing and the Framework Desktop around $2928 USD if going for the same RAM and storage capacity. More GB10 GPU benchmarks are on the way at Phoronix.

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